What is the most natural human instinct?
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I look at my 5 day old infant, screaming to feed.
I see natural disasters or emergencies and the most cultured person turns into an animal, focused only on their own personal survival.
Take an average person and let them go hungry for a while. See how they act. Everything changes. The strongest instinct, without question is survival.
It has only been recently in our evolutionary history that we have been free from the burden of guaranteeing physical survival that we have been able to pursue our other instincts.
The most puzzling thing about the survival instinct is how it can be completely circumvented or bypassed. Depressed people willingly go to the grave. Enlightened, or elderly people (or both), die with a smile on their face, welcoming death, and completely circumventing the survival instinct. It's odd in these instances how two extreme forms of the human condition, suicide, and enlightenment, bypass the most basic human instinct.
Death is, at one point or another, everyone's greatest fear. To bypass the fear of death, you must, in a way, overcome your own survival instinct. Thus, enlightenment allows us to face our most primal instincts or emotions.
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If it's a defining difference between animals and humans you're looking for I'd list the ability to ask questions (which is different from looking questioningly).
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Surviving long enough to reproduce is the most basic drive of DNA. To do this, it creates a series of physical and mental drives and abilities in what it builds (our bodies.) Our bodies are not, however, our DNA. Our DNA may be responsible for the structure of our brains, but our brains are not our DNA.
I think that our basic emotions-love,fear,anger-are the most powerful drives in human society, and that those drives are there because, in the long run, they assist in our survival and reproduction (including competition for reproductive opportunity) and are therefore likely to propagate into the next generation.
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