Human beings ARE an animal species, Iolo--homo sapiens, to be specific.
Homo sapiens--excluding the devolved mutant infestation in America--is a species with a large cerebrum portion of the brain.
Animals with larger cerebrums have diminished instincts because they use the cognitive process so frequently instead.
A significantly larger cerebrum is the principle difference between canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog, and it's origin species, canis lupus, the grey wolf.
The difference is even greater between humans and devolved trumpanzees.
You're so far up your subjective ass you should wink out of existance.
When and where theres a chunk of brain, means almost nothing. Even motor skills can be re-routed, see early age hemisphere amputations. Beyond that, i can tell you're a closeted racist bigot.
The only difference between people and the rest of the animal world is our habit of being completely psychotic. Turns out psychosis is therapeutic sometimes. Thats it. Thats all.
We have instincts just as any other animal. The assertion that animals dont have a choice but to be instinctive is as flawed as the distinction between predator and herbivore. Fight or flight, there's always a choice. Tho, even you intransigent thugs dont exhibit that much. but i wont say you didnt have the choice no matter how much you make it look like that.
Turns out the only true herbivore on earth is a koala bear. It is completly specialized and can only eat one plant. Name a common animal and ill show you a citation of it eating meat.
The facts are, zoology is a subjectivist pseudoscience.
You've literally learned to be even more stupid than you were born to be.
Im citing your intransigence as counter claim to your own assertions you're chiefly cognitive.
The inability to introspectivly recognize instinctive behaviour is highly suggestive of instinctive behaviour, fools, and not at all suggestive that you dont have instincts.
What makes you think youre so different? Arrogance is another instinct, i'd hazard to say. Note your inability to recognise it as such.
Consciousness is little more than bias appeasement. When and were it refuses to reach outside of it's pathway is not something you can naturaly detect. Despite all your frivolous counterclaims, you yourselves are a perfect example of human instinctive behaviour and much less this cognitive delusion you tell yourselves as you incessantly repeate rhetoric as facts.
That we can train to misapropriate our instincts to create a delusion as to otherwise, is meaningless. You slime find yourselves as superior in your recitation of verifiably false facts as your chief evidence of superiority. On even your own lips is the newly rhetorical "derangement" argument.
Argumentum ad populum will only lead you off a cliff like a buffalo or a lemming. You have no cares of your point being right or wrong only with the faith you've not been mislead. What proves human instinct better than you. What proves you're doomed better than your fellowship?
You, supirior? Harumf! Followers aren't supirior to anything.
Your pride is a counterpoint to your dignity, not a replacement. They're not synonyms.