Is there a biological process in which they are somehow handed down like genetic factors, or are there other elements in play besides modeling, which clearly doesn’t happen all the time?
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If you were actually 5, I’d say:
If you faced life’s dangers and it doesn’t work, you don’t survive
If you face the dangers and it works, you survive
Like how being bad means trouble, and being good means reward
Not surviving means you die and won’t grow up to have babies
Surviving means you would likely grow up and have your own babies
They would be a lot like you, and do more of what makes them survive
So the way people do things after a while would be the things that worked
Like learning to be good instead of bad to get more reward and less trouble
Being afraid of scary things that can hurt you
Or doing the right things to be good and get rewards
They are automatic, they happen on their own no matter what you want
Like how falling down hurts, you can’t make pain not happen
Or how laughing feels good. It happens on its own, automatically
So
Instinct is your body’s way of knowing on its own how to do what works
So you can survive and go on and maybe have babies of your own
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