many mammals can build complex structures by instinct, does humans have instinct? If we don’t have, why? If we have, what is it ?
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Yes, for example we instinctively want to drink water when we’re thirsty. The problem is, outside very basic examples like that, it’s hard to tell instincts from learned behaviour in humans. We have very elaborate learning abilities, which is why we see such huge differences in behaviour between human cultures. But all of our cultures have come into contact and influenced each other, so even if some behaviour seems the same across all cultures, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s instinctive. And for practical and ethical reasons, we can’t set up controlled human environments and see how they behave, like we can with mice.
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