What percentage of instinct do humans still use?

Opinion:I think not less than 42,Insinct of discovering and investigation is one of the most powerful instinct. Addendum:This is sort of like asking, "how much of your brain do you use?" The obvious answer to both is 100%.

Instinct is defined as "the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the

performance"(Birney, Robert C., and Richard C. Teevan, Instinct: An Enduring Problem in Psychology). In humans this is often referred to inaccurately as reflex.

Instinct is hardwired into every living thing. It is demonstrated most obviously by animal life. Most instinct is tied to the struggle to survive in some form or another, and instincts drive everything animals do. While it is often difficult to identify the root of instinct in any human action, it is nevertheless there. Dig deep enough and you will find it.

While in recent years mainstream psychology has eliminated discussions of instinct from human psychology, the fact remains that as living creatures, humans are as subject to instincts as any other animal. This trend in psychology is more an example of an attempt to over-intellectualize than any true academic or scholarly endeavor.

This is illustrated perhaps most by the psychologist Abraham Maslow. Maslow maintained that instinct is no longer a human trait, that it may have existed sometime in the prehistoric past, somewhere along the line of human evolution, but has been overridden or eliminated by the human ability to sublimate them in certain situations. This is plainly an oversimplification, and avoidance. Some animals have the same ability to override instinct. There are countless anecdotes of dogs and other pets that have ignored instincts of self-preservation by the choice to remain with a loved master.

The fight or flight response of all animal life is one of the most easily observable examples of an instinct or collection of instincts in action. While Walter Bradford Cannon, the father of Fight or Flight theory, may have oversimplified it, he nonetheless inexorably tied a continuing human behavior to all other animal life, and solidified the fact that humans are still slaves to instinct. Although some psychologists may disagree with the existence of human instinct, it is more obviously obscured by human sentience and intellect--both actively and passively. Human cognitive ability simply makes identifying instinct more complex and less easy to isolate.