Today my professor asks us a question, he asked us to raise our hands if we believe humans have instinct. i raised my hand. Then he asked us to raise our hands if we don't have instinct. Finally he asked if we don't know.
He told us if we don't know, then were right. He said he believes humans don't have instinctive nature. He also said that if humans ever possessed instincts, they have became so unimportant that humans don't use them at all anymore. He said there is nothing that shows we currently have instinct in us. Take this into note, for something to possess instinct it must meet the criteria. - Present at birth, unlearned or innate, common to all members of the species, and expressed in a complex behavior.
He says what we have is intuition. Everything we learn is simply because it was taught to us or we practiced it. An example he gave of an animal with instinct is a bird constructing a birds nest. every bird knows how do it and it wasn't taught to them. They did studies where they isolated the birds, and the birds would suddenly pick up scraps of materials that were needed to construct said bird nest.
My question is, do you believe humans have instinct? if so, what are they? ill point out some faulties that are misrepresented as instinct if you name them.
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09-01-2011, 05:19 PM #1Registered User
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Sociology prof said humans don't have instinct.
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11-16-2012, 10:34 PM #2I lift for T-Swift
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why wasn't this thread posted in? very good topic tbh.
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11-16-2012, 10:40 PM #4Banned
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How are we different from animals? Sure we arent born ready to fight but neither are many other animals.
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I'm a strong believer that humans have a sort of sixth sense, and when you really get to know someone, you can often sense when something is not right with them, or that something is wrong about the situation. As in a gut feeling when something just isn't right about someone.
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11-16-2012, 10:41 PM #6
I think breastfeeding is the only instinct humans are born with.
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pretty sure erections at the sight of HBB are instinct
your prof is an idiot
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11-16-2012, 10:43 PM #8Registered User
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i agree. ive srsly never felt any "instinct" in my life.
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I actually fukn hate sociology, it is the biggest fukn joke of a subject. Is she a women? soon she will probably tell you that we don't have instincts so therefore men can't use that as an excuse to be the protector and women are just as capable, or some sh!t like that.
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instincts intuition same **** different pile, tell your prof hes a hipster.
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95% of what this board talks about is sociological BS so why do you spend so much time here?Originally Posted by Cobbaa
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11-16-2012, 10:48 PM #14
lol @ bird having master nest making skills from birth
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11-16-2012, 10:48 PM #15You want to fukin go m8 ?
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i think he/she may be on to something...okay for example. if i were to punch at you , it'd be your instinct to flinch right ??? try to punch a newborn, it won't flinch cause it doesn't know better.
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11-16-2012, 10:48 PM #16#1 Tire flip all the time
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when you raised by super religious strict parents that they told you sex is bad!!!, but your instinct shows you for desire to fuk.
instinct told me that my ex is cheating, it turned out that my instinct was always correct.
You can sense the danger when instinct tells you.
But People are different if they have ability to understand the instinct or not.
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11-16-2012, 10:49 PM #17hahahahaOriginally Posted by Conipation
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A Liberal Muslim homosexual ACLU professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx.. ‘Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!’
At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL Champion who had served 1500 tours of duty, and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decisions made by the United States, stood up and held a rock.
‘How old is this rock?’
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and replied, ‘4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian.’
‘Wrong. It’s been 6,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old, and evolution — as you say — is real, then it should be an animal now.’
The professor was visibly shaken, dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species, and stormed out of the room crying liberal crocodile tears.
The students applauded and all registered Republican on that day. An Eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag, shedding a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and Jesus Christ showed up to enact a flat tax rate across the country.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all of eternity.
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I thought this was proven incorrect. I guarantee you a woman wouldn't know what to do if she didn't already know.Originally Posted by NDAPUPR
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11-16-2012, 10:50 PM #20I am an ent
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First thing I thought of when I read the title was a baby's rooting reflex, it's ability to suck mammaries despite never being taught.
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is language an instinct or is it learned?
that's the only one I can think of right now“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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We're not. Humans are part of the animal kingdom.Originally Posted by Conipation
Correct question would be "How are we different from other animals.
Primary answer is our mind; the free ability to make to conscious decisions based on rationality and logic. (sadly, not all humans take advantage of that ability)
As for the OP question... instinct is often confused with intuition. Many people think they are the same.
Intuition is in essence, a 'hunch" based on past experience and knowledge. Whereas instinct is an innate "script" that is inherent upon birth and throughout life.
I believe your professor in his statement that if humans ever had instinct then it has dulled down to the point of being rendered useless/nonexistent in present day humans. All humans posses intuition, but I don't believe that any posses instinct."Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
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Originally Posted by Conipation
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Babies are instinctively afraid of heights. They stop at ledges.
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BRB rooting reflex. BRB knee-jerk reflex.
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thisOriginally Posted by Conipation
nobody needs to teach you to fap
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11-16-2012, 10:52 PM #27You want to fukin go m8 ?
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learned. If it was instinct ALL humans would have knew it. It is learned.Originally Posted by BrownOut
I have CF(genetic disease) hence my super small size.
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11-16-2012, 10:53 PM #28You want to fukin go m8 ?
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isn't knee jerk just a reaction to the hit of tendon or muscle or something ??Originally Posted by Ultraviolence
I have CF(genetic disease) hence my super small size.
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Not sure if serious...Originally Posted by BrownOut
Did you come out of the womb speaking fluent english?"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
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Went to a lecture from paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer at SU a couple of days ago. He mentioned how we were domesticating ourselves and went on to explain how our brains are gradually getting smaller. (Hence why domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild counterpart.)
What I took from what he said is that we are slowly losing our more primitive instincts.
He appeared on the Colbert Report yesterday btw
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