You made a misinterpretation “humans not having instincts”.
Note the wiki point;
By the year 2000, a survey of the 12 best selling textbooks in Introductory Psychology revealed only one reference to instincts, and that was in regard to Sigmund Freud’s referral to the “id” instincts.[citation needed] In this sense, the term ‘instinct’ appeared to have become outmoded for introductory textbooks on human psychology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct#History
I would not depend on this wiki point [the contributor seem myopic] too much.
It only the used of the word ‘instinct’ but not what ‘instinct’ actually represent in psychology and neuroscience, i.e. “Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior.”
If you google the term ‘instinct’ it is still very popularly used within the psychology community, e.g.
How Does Instinct Work?
Instinct involves inherited behavior. How can behaviors be inherited?
psychologytoday.com/intl/bl … tinct-work
Actually, your “human beings do not have instinct” to counter my premises is very cheap, based on a falsehood and deceptive.
If you read the ‘History’ section at the beginning is this;
Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), an entomologist, considered instinct to be any behavior which did not require cognition or consciousness to perform.
An interest in innate behaviors arose again in the 1950s with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen, who made the distinction between instinct and learned behaviors. Our modern understanding of instinctual behavior in animals owes much to their work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct# … al_biology
Human beings inherited most the animal and mammalian neural functions via evolution, the above qualities are not likely to have changed in relation to instincts between animals and human beings. At most there are some additions at the frills but not the substance of it.
It is still true, human instincts do not require cognition or consciousness to perform.
It is said in the article, 4000 types of instinct were identified.
When I talk of the subconscious-of-fear-of-death instinct or responses, it is a very deep primal instinct [the very early] which had evolved long before and inherited by human being via evolution.
Such an instinct definitely preceded the pattern recognition of agencity which require ‘cognition’.
Note the above point, instincts do not require cognition or consciousness to perform, in this case, more so with the primal instinct of the subconscious-of-fear-of-death instinct.
You and KT made a lot of complains with my arguments and presentation.
Your lack and incapable to grasp my argument is more to do with your limitations than my lack of evidences. It is that I have thrown in too much [necessary] information and knowledge herein that you are unable to see them in a whole picture and perspective.