If this method is true, how is a person with an absent mind doing some of the work or doing actions that ordinary people do daily? For eg: eating, going to bed, watching TV, having a shower, and brushing your teeth. dressing, and so on? Is that because of experience and knowledge? I assume that it is because of instincts. Instincts are qualities that come to every person and animal at birth. I do agree that knowledge and experience do play a part in living beings but his genetic values are more crucial and strong.
Locke says we are born with a clean slate. This does not mean it stays that way. Through repeated experience we learn stuff. (By the way, modern psychologists do not believe in the clean slate hypothesis any longer, but it is still a good assumption when doing science).
All of those things are learned. When you are one week old you don't know how to do any of that stuff. Over time you learn those things. You can even add walking to the list of things that are not innate. You need to learn how to walk, you aren't born with that knowledge.
Human development comes about in two basic ways: a) parental instruction, and b) the acquisition of personal experience. Without the first, the individual would not survive long enough to reach the second. Everything that you mention in your second sentence other than eating, is learned behaviour, not behaviour practiced instinctively, and learned behaviour that cannot be practiced until the individual reaches a certain age, prior to which he or she lacks the physical capabilities. Furthermore, you list a bunch of stuff that applies only to Western culture from the latter half of the 20th Century onwards after domestic electricity and indoor plumbing became widespread. Other than breastfeeding, the human infant lacks any other abilities for at least the first year of life and has no chance of autonomous survival much before adolescence, and even then it largely depends on the particular environment that they inhabit. What you call instinct, largely consists of instruction by example and warnings, because animals are non-verbal. Humans, however, are different from all other animal species, even other primates, both because the offspring is dependent on parental care for a far longer period of time, and because verbal instruction permits the teaching of how to learn, which takes both the individual and our species as a whole, way beyond what you call instinct. Intellect is what distinguishes humans from animals, not physical abilities. Good luck with that surviving via your "genetic values," whatever they are.
Unique video, like the analysis of different figures in Locke's time
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If this method is true, how is a person with an absent mind doing some of the work or doing actions that ordinary people do daily? For eg: eating, going to bed, watching TV, having a shower, and brushing your teeth. dressing, and so on? Is that because of experience and knowledge? I assume that it is because of instincts. Instincts are qualities that come to every person and animal at birth. I do agree that knowledge and experience do play a part in living beings but his genetic values are more crucial and strong.
Locke says we are born with a clean slate. This does not mean it stays that way. Through repeated experience we learn stuff. (By the way, modern psychologists do not believe in the clean slate hypothesis any longer, but it is still a good assumption when doing science).
All of those things are learned. When you are one week old you don't know how to do any of that stuff. Over time you learn those things. You can even add walking to the list of things that are not innate. You need to learn how to walk, you aren't born with that knowledge.
Human development comes about in two basic ways: a) parental instruction, and b) the acquisition of personal experience. Without the first, the individual would not survive long enough to reach the second. Everything that you mention in your second sentence other than eating, is learned behaviour, not behaviour practiced instinctively, and learned behaviour that cannot be practiced until the individual reaches a certain age, prior to which he or she lacks the physical capabilities.
Furthermore, you list a bunch of stuff that applies only to Western culture from the latter half of the 20th Century onwards after domestic electricity and indoor plumbing became widespread. Other than breastfeeding, the human infant lacks any other abilities for at least the first year of life and has no chance of autonomous survival much before adolescence, and even then it largely depends on the particular environment that they inhabit.
What you call instinct, largely consists of instruction by example and warnings, because animals are non-verbal. Humans, however, are different from all other animal species, even other primates, both because the offspring is dependent on parental care for a far longer period of time, and because verbal instruction permits the teaching of how to learn, which takes both the individual and our species as a whole, way beyond what you call instinct. Intellect is what distinguishes humans from animals, not physical abilities. Good luck with that surviving via your "genetic values," whatever they are.