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Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:49AM (#37898434)
> instinctively

Humans don't have instincts. That's what separates us from the other, lower animals.

P.S. Urges, drives and desires aren't instincts.

P.P.S. Technically not true, the human being has a couple instincts related to breastfeeding, but they are supposed to disappear after a couple months in a healthy human baby.

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by mhaberl on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:10AM (#37898688)
Wikipedia states that you are not correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#In_humans

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:10AM (#37899364)
Wikipedia is wrong.

Feelings aren't instinct. (Feeling disgusted or sexually aroused or aggressive isn't an instinct.)

Instincts, by definition, are complex behavior. (Think birds building nests; nobody teaches them to do that, they are born with that knowledge.)

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by HenryBemis on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:50AM (#37900619)
Sexual arousal is part of the procreation mechanism, and thus I (not a psychologist) will classify it as instinct. I can think of many different feelings as instinct. When I see my gf crying, I don't 'think' to hug her, I instinctively hug her. When your friend walks two steps ahead of you and falls down, you don't stop to think and feel, you instinctively grab them.
Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:55PM (#37902711)
An instinct is complex, unlearned behavior.

Sexual arousal is neither complex nor behavior. It is a simple hormonal state.

You're using a colloqual meaning of "instinctive" that is unscientific and wrong.

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by mhaberl on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:12PM (#37902990)
Encyclopedia Britannica [1] also doesn't agree with you. > ...it is taken to include the possibility that humans too can be governed by instinct

But that's far from being the only source that defines 'instinct' in a way that doesn't align with what you're proposing.

Humans do have instincts.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/instinct/Instinct-as-behavi...

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:34AM (#37912098)
Yes, many things can be "taken to include the possibility".

Including the possibility that Gandalf and Harry Potter fly in on a Raelian flying saucer and solve climate change for us.

In reality, however, no instinctual behavior has yet been found in humans.

Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by olddustytrail on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:47PM (#37907116)
Humans very obviously have instincts, not least because it's humans who invented the concept. You might better argue that it's only humans who differentiate their behaviours so they consider some that are not instinctual.
Re:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days... by dragonwriter on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:49PM (#37907138)
> Humans very obviously have instincts, not least because it's humans who invented the concept.

Humans invented the concept of exoskeletons, too; inventing a concept does not imply having the concrete feature referred to by the concept.

Yes, humans have instincts, but inventing the concept of “instinct” is unrelated to that.