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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."
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"...doesn't really know how to control the situation so his first instinct is to protect dante uh and then virgil goes up and confronts..."
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"...a vicious circle. If you're betrayed by someone else, your first instinct is you'll betray another person, right? It's a chain of events. That's..."
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"...is reiterating classical catholic theology but when we read this our instinct is our intuition is like hmm i'd rather be human thank you..."
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"...you know that you're doing the right thing. Like from your instincts and your intuition, you didn't know if you did the right thing...."
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"...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..."
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"...and know what's going on. You have to believe in your instincts. You have to believe in your intuition."
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"...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..."
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"...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..."
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"...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..."
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"...be, you know, appeals to some of the, I guess, the instincts in human nature. That we divide ourselves into in -groups versus out..."
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"...yourself can you be good all right if you trust your instincts if you trust your intuition if you use your imagination you are..."
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