Do Humans Have Instincts??

[InfiniteNow]

So Rac... have you conveyed any of this information to your friend? Is he still sticking to his guns?

[Racoon]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

So Rac... have you conveyed any of this information to your friend? Is he still sticking to his guns?

Still sticking to his guns...(and homeboy literally has a closet full!)

I've diagnosed him what you might call a "Mis-Matcher"
You have to tell him the opposite, or totally agree with him for it to register, and affect his opinion. Which I am skillfully learning to do

[leo555]

Humans and instincts ..indeed we do have instincts...but we cannot realize those instincts as instincts as they happen to be occur obly when something occurs triggerring it off.

Lets consider this...
humans are different from animals in the sense that our most important organ is the brain...
A lion for example on the other hand uses its brute strength...hence instinct is different for different for differnent organisms depending on their essential tools.
OUR INSTINCTS occur up there in the cerebral cortex.
When asked a question our intstinct would be to think ...reason...apply logic or use memory.
some are just more developed at this instinct than others.

[learnin to learn]

Yeah, all humans have instincts but do we all share the same natural instincts? I was born and raised in the country, would I have the same instincts as some1 born and raised in the city? or vise versa?

[ingannilo]

Originally Posted by learnin to learn

Yeah, all humans have instincts but do we all share the same natural instincts? I was born and raised in the country, would I have the same instincts as some1 born and raised in the city? or vise versa?

If environment has anything to do with it then you're talking learned behavior, not instinct.

[MagnetMan]

Originally Posted by Racoon

Animals have instincts to be sure! But do humans?

We are animals first and foremost and last most. Our basic primate social instincts underly all subsequent behavioral developments. The mothering instinct, the territorial instinct, the heirachal instinct. All the instinctive reflexes in hand and eye cooridination that we apply in sport stem from ancestral monkey imprints .QUOTE]

[niin]

instincts....dont exist really.
Instinct is just a word for "I dont know why i did it" situations. My instinct just told me to do it.

If you walk down the road and sudenly jump to the side avoiding a car youd didn't know was coming. It is not your instict telling you to jump. the part of the brain handling hearing most likely just sent a danger signal and you jumped as a learned respons.
If you afterwards dont remember the sound you tell yourself...i did it becaurse my instinct told me to.

You can have Reflex responses....not instinctive repsonses.

[MagnetMan]

Originally Posted by niin

You can have Reflex responses....not instinctive repsonses.

How does that account for premonitions that take place long before they happen? Is instinct and intuition not linked or even the same? We know for scientific fact that we all have intuitive insights.

[niin]

Different areas of the brain can work independable (is this spelled right?) of each other.
Thats is....you dont know all that your brain do.
Premonitions is just a part of your brain that tell another part what "it" thinks is going to happend.

Instincts and premonitions is pretty much the same thing.
premonitions comes with a bit more information than instinct. Like...i knew that car was coming somehow.
You didnt remember getting the signal "sound of car comming"...but you got "image of a car comming"
The hearing part of brain sent signal to visualisation part of brain and then "you" got signal from that part of the brain.

[Eclogite]

Originally Posted by niin

Instincts and premonitions is pretty much the same thing.
premonitions comes with a bit more information than instinct.

In popular, unscientific usage this is true.
On a science forum, in the biology section, I suggest this is wholly untrue.

This is a passable definition of instinct, from wikipedia

Instinct is the inherent disposition of a living organism toward a particular behavior. Instincts are generally inherited patterns of responses or reactions to certain kinds of stimuli. In humans they are most easily observed in behaviors such as emotions, sexual drive, and other bodily functions, as these are largely biologically determined. Instinct provides a response to external stimuli, which moves an organism to action, unless overridden by intelligence, which is creative and hence far more versatile.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct

There have been no instances of premonition validated by scientific study other than the immediate subsconscious warnings you have mentioned.