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Susan T's avatar

You are being silly. Humans have no instincts, an instinct being defined as something one is born knowing how to do. Everything humans do is learned one way or another. I suppose a great deal depends on where you learn what you learn. But humans are remarkably adaptable and can eventually understand that what they learned at one time no longer applies, if it ever did. A spider has the instinct to spin webs because they are born knowing how to do that. I doubt they can unlearn that.

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russian_bot's avatar

"You are being silly." - you got me, girl!

Re instincts - I assume you sucked a nipple. Maybe you had lessons in the womb.

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Susan T's avatar

I did not suck a nipple. I learned how to suck on a bottle. The urge to suck when the cheek is stroked is a reflex, not an instinct.

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