Intuitively it feels different but I am not able to explain it
In: Biology
Instinct is your natural innate feeling/gumption to doing something. It’s more about the innate type of response that we would have under certain conditions. It doesn’t necessarily have to be be in response to something.
EX:
“When in the wild, Billy’s instinct is to find wild mushrooms to eat”.
Reflex seems to be a more of a SUDDEN RESPONSE to some action/stimulus. You could say a reflex could be an instinctual (as often you don’t exactly think when you reflexively act): however reflex focuses more on the action of you doing something suddenly rather than explaining why you did it (like instinct usually does) due to some innate gumption.
EX
“When Billy dropped his wild mushrooms, he reflexively tried snatching them from the air. His instinct seemed to focus on his food rather than potentially falling while catching his mushrooms”
Hope this helped.
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