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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.