What is it ? Where is it stored ? Where does it come from ? How is it passed on from parent to sibling ?
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Animal instincts are behaviors that have been taught for so long to humans from generation to generation that they got ingrained into our DNA and we are now born with them. They are basically memories that are passed down through DNA.
So an animal instinct is experience that we earn not by actually living it, but because the DNA guides our brains to artificially create that experience for us so we can learn from it immediately and without any actual danger. The brain literally just wires itself with that behavior in mind.
Now, all this is mostly refering to more advanced stuff like fears and such, but even basic stuff like wanting food or wanting to mate are animal instincts. These ones we learned just through evolution. The brains of our ancestors happened to be wired so they would seek out food more which meant they lived longer and had more babies and so on.
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