Do emotions = instincts?
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Do emotions = instincts?
>>376060
Fuck off
>>376074
No.
>>376074
>pic
That's a thing now?
>>376060
NO.
Yes.
Sentient behavior is why humans are at the top of the food chain.
>>379411
>Sentient behavior is why humans are at the top of the food chain.
1. HOW DOES THAT STATEMENT ANSWER THE "ORIGINAL POSTER'S" QUESTION?
2. "THE FOOD CHAIN" IS A SPURIOUS CONCEPT; THERE IS NO ACTUAL "FOOD CHAIN".
As a man, your only instinct is to fuck and kill. Everything else is pseudoscience drivel.
>>376060
No, instincts are behavioral dispositions, emotions cannot be described in the terminology of behaviorism.
>>376060
Some, fear of snakes and spiders seems to be instinctual, IIRC this was even found in a monkey species where captive born infants showed a fear response to snake and eagle type silhouettes
>>376060
No because if they were, women would be better hunters than men.
>>376060
Many are, many aren't.
It's stupid to boil things into purely caused by nature or purely caused by nurture.
No. The two are related, but not the same.
Instinct = desire for basic survival and reproductive needs. Food, water, avoiding danger, lust etc.
Emotions = more complicated innate feelings, usually related to social interactions with other humans. Anger, jealousy, joy, love, grief etc.
Sentiment = persisting emotions towards a particular topic, less ephemeral than instinct or emotions. Pacifism, racism, misogyny, humanism, conservatism etc.
