How Do You See the Instinctive Behaviors of the Human Species?

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Instinctive behaviors are actions of the human body that help us out of danger and energizes us for any emergency, our brain is a delicate balance between reason and emotion, the first dominated by the neocortex which is what allows us to think, speak , perceive, think, analyze and act like civilized people, the second is by the limbic system that is basically involved in the experiences and expressions of emotion such as love, joy, fear, depression, feeling or unaffected and in turn, controls the body's autonomic system. In moderate risk situations neocortex maintains control over the limbic system that receives information from the senses through the thalamus, analyzes the situation and decide a plan of action and orders the amygdala to respond emotionally and enlisting a series of reactions that prepare the body in case the situation goes wrong. This is one reason the neocortex allows us to trace strategies developed thanks to something known as the cycle of observation of the situation, counseling and testing, deciding a course of action and acting, a process lasting about 1 second in the our intelligence which resolves things. As this happens the amygdala then sends orders to the body to prepare for a possible violent physical action. The amygdala then functions as a trigger emergency response that takes less time to react to stimuli that are presented to us as you have your own version of the cycle of observation of the situation, counseling and testing lasts approximately 0.20 seconds. The range of response is a repertoire of instinctive reactions recorded in us from the beginning of human evolution. For example the instinct to jump back when a car braked suddenly in front of us. The obvious advantage of this is that the reaction times are much faster, but also more basic and less elaborate as running, jumping, pushing, pulling or hitting, and that these

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