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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz Questions like these were mostly answered decades ago, at least operationally. Broadly, most of behaviour is more-or-less mechanical, stimulus-reponse chains, while some behaviour has a "transmitted" component (aka "culture"), but learning is itself generally of the first order (like how children learn to walk and talk automatically); and then there is third-degree learning: the learning process itself comes to be self-reflexively the subject of culture, and this seems to be somehow the essence or crux of what differentiates humans from animals.