Natural Instincts

Let's ponder on the issue of Instincts.

Instincts are intuitions, some would say a natural phenomenon? But what is a natural phenomenon? What constitutes a natural phenomenon? In this context, are instincts biological or sociological in nature to amount to a natural phenomenon?

I guess they also call instincts hunches. Do people have hunches? Do people feel that something is amidst? In other words, are those feelings scientifically real, or are they merely psychological? If it being the latter, does that mean that we can control it? If it being the former, then people don't really have hunches in a linguistic sense, do they? In fact, there won't be such a thing as a hunch.

Instincts are the result of an assessment of a whole history of social interactions and the socialisation process that makes up that individual's identity. This implies that every person's instincts are not the same. While some instincts prove more accurate than others, they all naturally reflect a person's values and perceptions. To that effect, it may be considered to be sociological in origin.

But I continue to wonder if instinct is a byproduct of the complex neuro-calculations of our brain. Something that is not 'made up' so as to be psychological, but rather, a 'humanly' character. It is said that animals do have instincts as well, hence does that support the idea that instincts are biological in origin?

Then again, it is true that the external environment is the triggering factor of instincts in the first place. We don't get instincts out of nowhere, do we? That being the case, instincts seem to possess both a sociological and biological character in nature, since they are caused by the external dimension while being internally processed. Thus 'natural' covers both aspects, to be precise. But I find myself not being able to not mention the chronological argument that since instincts are triggered by external factors in which the internal process is based upon, wouldn't that make instincts sociological in nature? This brings us back to the earlier argument; the fact that animals have instincts themselves does not necessarily follow that instincts are biological in origin since it is possible that animals have their own socialisation process as well which caused the creation of instincts. But animal instincts are thought not to be the same as that of humans as they do not possess that 'humanly' character I was talking about. Do fresh-borned infants have instincts? The answer would shed much light on the debate at hand.

Either way, the consensus appears that instinct seems to be a natural phenomenon. It is difficult to categorise its origin as it may just be an existent in the rhetoric and linguistic sense.