Conditioning

I see that conditioning plays a role why we tend to follow or do things unconsciously at the same time.

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... instincts) behaviors are both evident in the more complex animals. Canids(and I'm sure they aren't the only ones), even without any conditioning by peers, are able to have sex. I can state this with confidence because we have one male dog and two female dogs, he has never seen a ...

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... he was raised that way, but there comes a point where adults must be held responsible for their own philosophies, regardless of their parents' conditioning. In any case, what irritated me most about this particular Afghan was his narrow-mindedness in refusing to believe that his philosophies ...

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... without doubt controlled almost entirely by their genes. I think it would be much more interesting to study how genetic programming interacts with conditioning to learn the nature of instinct in more advanced organisms. After all, such study could help us understand ourselves a lot better.

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... not be nurtured, but other things (such as what features to find attractive in the opposite sex) can be just as much a product of cultural conditioning as DNA programming.

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