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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: neilep on 12/06/2009 10:11:07

Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: neilep on 12/06/2009 10:11:07

Good Moaning !

I recently asked a question about the nature of eye squinting whilst scrutinising. (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=23576.msg257694#msg257694)

........the answer came that "Both depth of field and depth of focus increase with smaller apertures" from this I deduced that this is why we squint.

How does my body know to make me squint ?..how does my body know about all the other instinctual stuff that it does ?

I suppose this is a question about the nature of all that inbuilt knowledge eh ?


whajafink ?



neil
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Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: Don_1 on 12/06/2009 10:15:36

At the risk of being labeled a Testudinata Twerp, I am guessing...... ermmmm..... Instinct???

Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: neilep on 12/06/2009 10:20:52

Quote from: Don_1 on 12/06/2009 10:15:36

At the risk of being labeled a Testudinata Twerp, I am guessing...... ermmmm..... Instinct???

well....I'm convinced !!

 [;D]   I suppose what  I mean is, how does that "programming" (if it programming) get instilled there in the first place ? there must be a rudimentary backbone/foundation that instructs actions to happen via instict !

Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 12/06/2009 10:22:57

There was this rather long thread which might have an answer in it somewhere: How does "instinct" evolve? (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=16535.0). Ewe're a brave man if you read all of that [:)]

Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: neilep on 12/06/2009 10:25:42

Quote from: Chemistry4me on 12/06/2009 10:22:57

There was this rather long thread which might have an answer in it somewhere: How does "instinct" evolve? (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=16535.0). Ewe're a brave man if you read all of that [:)]

Instict instructs me to avoid that thread !... [;D]

thanks Chemistry4me

Title: How Does Our Body Know To Do Instinctual stuff ?
Post by: JnA on 12/06/2009 17:30:47

I suspect that you body does not 'know' how to make you squint, but that practice and trial and error has conditioned you to squint in certain situations.