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Wikipedia states that you are not correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#In_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#In_humans
by mhaberl 3y ago
Wikipedia states that you are not correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#In_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#In_humans
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoWikipedia 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.)
- HenryBemis 3y agoSexual 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.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoAn 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.
- mhaberl 3y agoEncyclopedia 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-behaviour https://www.britannica.com/topic/instinct/Instinct-as-behavi...
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoYes, 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.