2011-03-03, 07:29 PM
Shidoshi Wrote:It's our most basic responses to stimuli, that does not mean that through living in society we don't get to supress our instincts. It's what we are born with.
Take a human being and put it away from civilization and our rules. It will still seek to reproduce and survive, it's something that doesn't need to be taught,
We are born with nothing other than simple responses to certain stimuli that fades with time.
Take a baby human, just born preferably, put it away from civilization and our rules and it will die. He can't even control his own temperature, how's he going to seek to survive?
You missed my point...
"It's what we are born with. It will still seek to reproduce and survive, it's something that doesn't need to be taught." Explain why people suicide, become anorexic, decide to live in celibacy.
Wikipedia Wrote:The book "Instinct" (1961) established a number of criteria were established which distinguishes instinctual from other kinds of behavior. To be considered instinctual a behavior must a) be automatic, b) be irresistible, c) occur at some point in development, d) be triggered by some event in the environment, e) occur in every member of the species, f) be unmodifiable, and g) govern behavior for which the organism needs no training (although the organism may profit from experience and to that degree the behavior is modifiable)
I can quote wikipedia too

Oh, if you keep reading Wikipedia read the part that says "Pyschology" that's the part that applies to us, humans. But note that Freud didn't say we had instincts like animals. For Freud it means a different thing, I think that there was a translation mistake.

