A student answers that humans differ from animals because consciousness and free will let them direct fate and suppress instinct.
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Instinct
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...some laws that like animals are bound to, for example, like instincts. We can suppress instincts. Okay."
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"...some laws that like animals are bound to, for example, like instincts. We can suppress instincts. Okay."
"...going to be around for another 20 years. That's what my instinct tells me. He's going to live for another 20 years. Okay? We..."
"...and know what's going on. You have to believe in your instincts. You have to believe in your intuition. You have to believe that..."
"...and know what's going on. You have to believe in your instincts. You have to believe in your intuition."
"...uh better than people anticipate that's that's my gut gut gut instinct i could be wrong but but that's my gut instinct final one..."
"...this world. And so I think it's just human nature, human instinct to believe that I'm being fed this information by the elite or..."
"...aren't only you know rational individuals that we are we have instincts as well we're group animals essentially which aren't being uh which doesn't..."
"...be, you know, appeals to some of the, I guess, the instincts in human nature. That we divide ourselves into in -groups versus out..."
"...yourself can you be good all right if you trust your instincts if you trust your intuition if you use your imagination you are..."
"...So for example, we're all religious in some aspect. Another fundamental instinct about us, we strive to be different."
"...people who suck up to them, okay? That's the natural human instinct. So in other words, the father, he's almost like selfless, okay? He's..."
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