Call it instincts if you like, but what you feel when you see a hot women is no more than an instinct.
We have those instincts, but we also have a complex Limbic system in the brain. The more complex the brain is, the more complex the emotions. Its not like there is some special line drawn in the animal kingdom where anything below the line its called an instinct and anything above the line pure love. Love is a necessary instinct we have coupled with a very complex brain.
You and I are homo sapiens, it is impossible to know exactly how another creature feels, so one cant say much about what goes on in their head. You cant confirm that a dog thinks, loves, or knows right and wrong. Even though you can teach a dog to not pee on your floor. A baby doesnt know to take a crap in a toilet, thats why it has a diaper. A toddler will do bad things and not give a crap, because it hasnt learned that it is wrong yet. Same thing happens with a dog when it learns to go pee in the backyard. A CAT scan helps find out the locations and magnitude of brain activity, but you cant get exactly walk in their paws. You may be right, I may be right, but we cant know. We do however know, that humans are animals, we operate in the same way as most other animals.
A mouse may be as dumb as a.... mouse. A racoon is smarter than a mouse, it can learn more things. A dog is smarter than a racoon, it can show more emotion and stuff. A chimp is a lot smarter and can even be taught to do simple jobs that humans get paid to do. Humans are far smarter than all, we have certian genes that have evolved to help us with language (FOXP2 gene) and problem solving. But there is nothing that declares us as an animal created distincitly seperate and specially made by a god. We have no purpose on earth any more special than a mouse. If anything we have a determental effect on earth.
But what we do know is that humans are successful, not 'divinely special'.
Animals are not "put on earth for us to ride and eat" as the bible says. if you think we are that special, where our evolutionary line did the special happen? where in the evolutionary line did we not become just a creature in nature?
Our purpose is none. Our goal is to survive. We just have a lot of fun in the process.
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