Is it possible to be born without “natural instincts”?

Question

Consider this...

Most people agree that there are certain things that we know the day we are born without ever having been taught them? Take for example the “fight or flight” instinct in which someone in danger naturally will know (and thus have to decide) either to defend themselves or flee. However, do you think it is possible for someone to be born completely without this automatic knowledge at all?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Though most people don't realize it, they are often subject to DOZENS of instincts. A few examples:

Though you have undoubtedly controlled your responses more strictly now, babies instinctively grab on to things with their hands and lift a foot when you touch it and push the other one down. Even now, it probably feels strangely good to hold a tool in your hand. It is instinct that taught you to walk and use tools.

You may not have thought about it, but consider that virtually every human language is constructed in more or less the same way. Nouns. Verbs. Syllables. Words. And babies automatically listen and try to repeat sounds they hear. None of this MUST be so. It is instinct that taught you language.

So where would a person be with no desire to manipulate things or with no intrinsic ability to understand what is said? Or perhaps no innate interest in sex or fear of common dangers? With little doubt, such a person would be alone, dead, and shortly extinct.

Answer 3

Yes. The flight or fight instinct is biological in origin. Specifically, it is the discharge of adrenaline into the blood stream. If something occurs with the biological mechanism and it does not function, the person would be without fear, but could only give minimum resistance as adrenaline is necessary for aggression also.

Answer 4

Yup! I only have 1 1/2 of them. The bottom right one is only half. of it and doesn't look the the other half will ever come in. And the top left one is full. The funny thing is, I had those as long as I can remember! I don't remember a time I didn't have those!

Answer 5

I don't think it is possible. All of us have basic instincts that r embedded in us, which r one of the defining factors of a species. Like, if u put 2 people of opposite sex in a deserted island, from an early age, eventually they will have sex having no prier knowledge of it. It was in their natural instincts. It is not possible to b born without them I think.

Answer 6

while i have to say no to being born with natural insticts, i do believethat those natur instincts can be silenced. for example, we find that our human instict may tell us that it is wrong to kill a human but it happens everyday. a horrific but good example of this is ww2 and the nazi's their human instinct of equality was tarnished by hitlers propogandy and lies. you think to yourself, how could the nazi's have done this to the jews and the anser is simple. their natural insticts were destroyed.

Answer 7

I don't know you got me thinking. I say the person would just know what to do. So my answer is no.

Answer 8

Yes! Babies, they don't " fight or flight"