The Instincts and Senses of M A N

[Whiterain]

Subject matter consists on discussion regarding the instincts and senses, 6th sense of Man.

Some people feel when they're being watched or looked at. You may have experienced this and
it's not hard to prove. Although it would seem like our instincts our 6th sense could be related
to God or the Soul, entailing the divine. It could be the soul that feels this, as well as the
occasional sense of danger.

I wouldn't consider it a primitive feature, that's super natural as per-cognitive occurrence.

Go on about extra-sensory perception.

That may be the 6th sense: awareness or spiritual awareness. This sense is stronger in some
folk than others and may result their stronger connection to God and Nature.

As well, sexual intercourse, I know class, I know.

I mean, I experience a lot of soul when I'm having sex, there's a lot of energy in the room
whence I am ploughing, I could be more intimate .

 

[fallingblood]

How often is it really someone watching us and not just our imagination though? Many often think they felt someone watching or that danger was near, but in fact it was nothing. Often people feel very safe when danger is near. The idea of a sixth sense seems more like selective remembering then an actual phenomena.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Pattern recognition is not a sense, nor is apophenia.


And there are more than five senses in humans. About 20 possibly.

 

[outhouse]

Instincts that have evolved for millions of years tied to our large brains and imagination for survival. Nothing more.


We have the ability to imagine that lion waiting in tall grass that wants to make us dinner, we are not the only species either. But we do have the ability to over analyze the process.

 

[Sunstone]

This thread does not bode well for an informed discussion of human instincts and senses. I predict all sorts of out of date information will be presented as fact. For instance, the notion humans have only five senses was wrong 2300 years ago, and it's wrong today. Nor do humans have only six senses. Sheesh!

 

[BSM1]

Man, by definition, has no instincts.

 

[FranklinMichaelV.3]

Man, by definition, has no instincts.

Have you ever been afraid of the dark?

How about felt an attraction to a woman (if you are a man) with large hips or large breast?

Have you ever felt fear?

 

[tumbleweed41]

Does this have anything to do with Evolution v. Creationism?

 

[Whiterain]

This seems like the right section, where should it go, Staff? Staff feel free to relocate the discssion if you
desire.

As well as discussing instincts, if there is more than 6 how many is there? I mean 6 is a good arch-type
anyway.

The subject is conflicted, I guess, if you do not believe in having a Soul than you do not believe some senses
exceed your physical abilities, although mental abilities aren't entirely physical are they?

For instance:

I premptively know the phone is about to ring and it rings, or I per-emptivley sense that there
is a mortar attack coming in, that is not a chemical reaction in my brain is it?

 

[BSM1]

Have you ever been afraid of the dark?

How about felt an attraction to a woman (if you are a man) with large hips or large breast?

Have you ever felt fear?

These are not instincts. These are emotions or intuitions. Read the definition of instincts. You'll see that 'man' as a species doesn't even come close.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I premptively know the phone is about to ring and it rings, or I per-emptivley sense that there is a mortar attack coming in, that is not a chemical reaction in my brain is it?

In the sense that confirmation bias is a chemical reaction in your brain, yes.

 

[FranklinMichaelV.3]

These are not instincts. These are emotions or intuitions. Read the definition of instincts. You'll see that 'man' as a species doesn't even come close.

Those are definitely instincts.

A childs fear of the dark is instinctual. It's a response to an environmental stimuli.

The arousal of man to women with defined hips and breast is also instinctual (it's realted to the attraction to a fertile woman). That's a response to an environmental stimuli (the woman in this case).

 

[BSM1]

Sorry, but one of the tenets of instinct is that every member of the species does the same thing in a given situation without thinking. Individual humans will react differently given the situation. We also think about causes and effects, options, and outcomes; we don't just react to every stimulus. Again, please read the definition of instinct.

 

[outhouse]

These are not instincts. These are emotions or intuitions. Read the definition of instincts. You'll see that 'man' as a species doesn't even come close.

Which are factually instinctive.

 

[yoda89]

Sorry, but one of the tenets of instinct is that every member of the species does the same thing in a given situation without thinking. Individual humans will react differently given the situation. We also think about causes and effects, options, and outcomes; we don't just react to every stimulus. Again, please read the definition of instinct.

in·stinct
[ ín stìngkt ]

1. strong natural impulse: a powerful impulse that feels natural rather than reasoned
2. biological drive: an inborn pattern of behavior characteristic of a species and shaped by biological necessities such as survival and reproduction
3. knack: a natural gift or skill

 

[BSM1]

in·stinct
[ ín stìngkt ]

1. strong natural impulse: a powerful impulse that feels natural rather than reasoned
2. biological drive: an inborn pattern of behavior characteristic of a species and shaped by biological necessities such as survival and reproduction
3. knack: a natural gift or skill

If you care to believe that you have instincts then power to you. But definition #2 precludes the lack of animal instinct in the human species. None of us, as a species, has an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of our kind. In other words there is nothing that we all do the same, other than reflex actions, in a particular situation. In most cases we weigh outcome against action and we make a choice. This is not instinct, this is intuition. As a matter of fact if we have decided that an action is instinct then the mere labeling of the idea means it can't be an instinct. If you can think about it becomes a judgement. That's the difference. Having said this the closest action that is instinctual in humans is the suckling and swimming action found in infants.

 

[Ares]

Do animals sense danger or fear? Are humans animals? Maybe those humans that have "spider sense" so to speak are more intune to their animal insticts. Go to a mall and stare at the back of some ones head and see if they turn back to look for no apparent reason? You can make your own experiment out of it and record your results of say 10 people for example.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

When I was younger I could sense electronics running without seeing or hearing them, and my parents wanted to know once when we were camping if the electricity was on in the camper and I said yes i can feel it, and it was.

 

[outhouse]

If you care to believe that you have instincts then power to you. But definition #2 precludes the lack of animal instinct in the human species.
.

You are wrong, dead wrong.

Most all animals have biological drive.

None of us, as a species, has an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of our kind.

False, and there is no such thing as "kind"

Ever have a dream your falling and wake up. That is a instinct millions of years old that goes back to when our primate relative's who had survival instincts that helped them so they would not fall out of tree's.

In other words there is nothing that we all do the same, other than reflex actions, in a particular situation. In most cases we weigh outcome against action and we make a choice. This is not instinct, this is intuition.

False intuition is instinctive

As a matter of fact if we have decided that an action is instinct then the mere labeling of the idea means it can't be an instinct.

False again

not fact

Your not even making sense at this point.

If you can think about it becomes a judgement. That's the difference. Having said this the closest action that is instinctual in humans is the suckling and swimming action found in infants

False

Some Judgments can be instinctive, and the only reason certain species evolved forward.

If you try attacking this from a angle that evolution doesn't exist, you with fail again and again.

 

[BSM1]

Do animals sense danger or fear? Are humans animals? Maybe those humans that have "spider sense" so to speak are more intune to their animal insticts. Go to a mall and stare at the back of some ones head and see if they turn back to look for no apparent reason? You can make your own experiment out of it and record your results of say 10 people for example.

(One more time, then I'm going home.) The mall experiment proves my point. To be an 'instinct' every human in the mall has to snap their heads around to see the starer. They all have to do this uniformly and totally with out thinking about their action. In other words they can't think or 'feel' some one staring at the back of their heads and turn to look; it has to be an automatic, unconscious, and nonstoppable action executed by every member of that species. Granted individual humans may have greater reflexes or intuitive powers, but instincts--fortunately, no.