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To: neolib who wrote (128330)	7/31/2005 7:50:11 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 793888

From your source: "The only complex instinctive mechanisms which remain intact in man are those which are connected with the vegetative, reproductive, excretory and similar primitive processes, particularly those controlled by the older autonomic and glandular adaptations. These function where the organism is most standardized and least subject to change. Elsewhere the complex instincts are being broken down or selected out and the organism is being thrown back upon the simpler instincts or reflexes for its native equipment. These, in turn, are being organized into acquired habit complexes." With this definition the problem is reduced to finding "primitive processes" in order to find instinctive processes. For example since rape is not a reproductive process it can not be considered instinctive.