What are Man's base instincts?

Question

please provide serious answers.

Answer 1

Survival.
Hunting or gathering.
Procreating.

Answer 2

The animal, bodily instincts. Putting our thoughts on the body, is perhaps it's manifestation. Putting out thoughts on the mind accesses our higher instincts or consciousness. The mind is still mechanical, but incredible. It handles the body for us and does a better job, so it's a better focus to get the whole job done. Of course that posits that the consciousness is us, not our thoughts ideas or beliefs, as they wax and wane.

Answer 3

There are actually quite a few, and not only some of our most primitive but also some of our most sophisticated activities are greatly dependant upon them. To name a few:

WALKING. The only reason most people don't think of this as an instinct is that it is SO instinctive. If walking were ONLY a skill, it would be as easy to walk on your hands as on your feet, taking into a account the various differences in design of the two sets of appendages. Even babies with NO experience walking instinctively alternate feet in proto-walking actions.

TOOL USE. It is instinctive to grab things and manipulate them with our hands. Again, even babies do this. And adults can experience it as well - it is somehow satisfying to hold something with a little heft in your hand. It feels GOOD. And random good feelings are usually a result of instinct.

SEX. Since we're on the subject of random good feelings... well, probably enough said.

LANGUAGE. On certain fundamental levels, all human languages are the same. Human babies, unlike many animals, naturally listen and try to replicate sounds around them. It is natural for us to develop and use a language, and to do so in certain ways. Linguistic theorists have come up with a number of other ways that languages MIGHT have been formulated, but they weren't and aren't. Instinct.

EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR. Before linguistic communication there was emotional communication, and most of us share common means of expressing certain emotions in facial and body language... these are so pervasive that many animals share as similar means of expression of the same emotional concepts as possible.

AESTHETICS. Cross-cultural studies have confirmed that there are certain images and sounds that are pretty univerally agreed on to have pleasing, jarring, and other effects. There is no particular reason why these associations much be so unless they are instinctive (and possibly associated with environmental signals of safety, danger, and the like).

PSYCHOLOGY. Of course we all know about the 'fight-or-flight' response produced by adrenalin... this naturally causes people in adrenalin-rich situations to tend to only think in terms of these two solutions to their problems. It could be argued that almost all humans are innately curious about just about everything... but this may also just be a natural product of great intelligence and not an instinct per se.

SOCIALIZING. Humans are social animals. Some are painfully so - they despair unless in frequent contact with others. That 'loners' are unusual suggests that almost all humans prefer to aggregate along a variety of lines. And even 'loners' sometimes form groups (as paradoxical as that may seem)!

That's just a few to get you started. Instincts - even for humans - are so common and pervasive that they can be like water to a fish: it is so hard to imagine them NOT being there that most people completely take them for granted. But without them we would be quite different creatures indeed. Yay instincts!

Answer 4

eating and mating. That's the only thing animals live for. And human behavior, is really not that far detached from it. What are human wars, but just trying to make the world a better place for your kind?

Although humans are thankfully far enough detached from the animals to have a third appreciation; beauty.

Answer 5

to provide for himself at the cost of others. this is base.

Answer 6

Sex
Food
Sex
Beer
Sex
Sports
and finally,
Sex
I'm serious.

Answer 7

replication

Answer 8

stick his d!ck in a hole and try to reproduce