"I call hunger, warn me to have something to eat, or why should dryness in the the throat warn me to take something to drink, and so on? I plainly had no explanation other than that I had been taught this way be nature." - (Descartes 95)
This is an interesting thing "D" talks about. It made me think of when we are babies and how we cried when we were hungry. How did we know how to do that at a such a young age, is it instinct? But then I started thinking our parents were taught that when we cried to feed us. So maybe we put them together and then learned that is how we got fed.
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i have a feeling it is a psychological understanding or like a reflex like autonomic.when your body feels hunger it makes you react in a way when you are a baby that you deprive attention. I think thats what "d" is trying to get at.
Like Jen said, how DO we know that as babies, we cry whenever we needed something.
We would prefer to call it instinct and get on with our lives, but what about plants? Are they not a living thing that needs water when thirsty? Plants don't cry out of instinct like mammals do.
I never thought about the plant thing like Brian said. Plants have to depend on people to water them or it to rain. Otherwise they die. I guess that is where the nature kicks in. I don't know, that confuses me.
I was also reminded of me of the same thing. I think as humans its natural instinct for us to to cry when we were babies when we were hungry because we didn't know what else to do, but at the same time, our parents always fed us when we cried, or at least tried to so our brains probably realized the connection.
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