Using Illustration Friday as inspiration for weekly illustrations.
This week's concept is "instinct".
Here's my explanation for the illustration I chose to use:
What I find compelling about instinct is the question of where instinct ends and choice begins and what the fall of that line means about who we are as humans. As genetic research continues, more questions arise...more controversies mount.
Where does sex end and romance begin. Is the appreciation of beauty in our genes? The urge to protect fragility? Kindness? How much is choice and if so, how are our choices limited by our instincts? Is the mind something or just what the brain does? Is there really a difference between instinct and culture? Is culture a highly flexible product of instinct?
We are still not sure who we are but the subject of instinct seems to me to speak more about how we are who we are.
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