10 instinct behaviour of humans
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In my experiments, I have identified many instinctive functions. I don't know how one would separate out which ones are primal and which one's aren't. The same method of discovering instincts can also slowly demonstrate what is in muscle memory, so differentiating between what you learned and what you had from the beginning can be difficult.
The instincts that determine what foods you should and shouldn't be eating could be considered primal in one respect. The system functions the same person to person. The specific responses, however, are learned. In programming terms, we have the software in place from birth, but the database is empty. We need to shove things into our mouths to fill that database.
Preening and massage instincts are definitely primal. They have no basis in modern life for someone to learn them from, yet by showing a person how to notice the instructions, they can do it. This means it isn't based on muscle memory, and is, instead, built in from birth.
What other instincts are there? Empathy? Technically some parts of empathy can be considered instinctive. Is it built in from birth? It could be, but how would you determine that? It could easily be learned.
Mating instincts. Now there's something that I need to test more. I would say they are very much built in from birth and not based on culture or preferences, as when a person learns how to provoke those instincts and notice reactions, paying attention to the instinctive reactions has repeatedly eliminated "kinks" and such, pushing rather for intimacy, passion, skin to skin contact, and dominance/submission interrelation (without BDSM toys and methods), in a well flowing manner. These instincts, however, go way beyond sex and prove to clash with anything other than a "mate for life" mentality, leading to the idea that marriage isn't just a social construct. These are just my results so far though. I expect similar results from more subjects (just because other experiments tend to work that way), but I am very much in need of a greater number and diversity of test subjects.
There are defecation instincts that lead a person into specific positions to increase ease of waste removal. Pregnant women seem to also be able to use similar instincts when giving birth. There is an instinct that tells you when you're not ready to get out of bed, and when you are. I don't believe any of these are learned, as I don't see how they would be. It's possible though that they are learned rather than primal.