Do human beings have any proper natural instincts anymore, or is it all just learned responses and reflex?

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Is there anything we can do without being taught first and learning by mistake? The only thing I can think of is sleeping. Is sleeping a real natural instinct?

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Babies breathe out underwater and even swim – it’s the whole basis of underwater baby shoots, they breathe out and open their eyes and generally don’t mind it.

All kinds of body reflexes – tapping your knee, stroking the bottom of your foot, etc.

Taste, and turning your head from food that tastes bad, that’s present as a baby – and the purported origin of the “No” head-shake.

Blinking, flinching when an object comes towards you.

Baby’s hands can grip onto an object and hold their own weight up automatically (believed to be from our ape ancestors clinging to mother).

Almost everything to do with swallowing, coughing, choking, gagging on stuck food.

Newborns will crawl to their mothers breasts if you just leave them alone… we just always pick them up nowadays, but they can smell the milk and make their own way there.

All kinds of things. You just don’t think of them in everyday life.

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