There is a deep-seated instinct for self-preservation warning us that, unlike an implanted device or machine-to-brain interface, genetic editing means seriously messing with your own source code, with potentially irreversible and unknown results.
Speaking at a business meeting recently, I was reminded of a deep-seated instinct common among the elite, political and educated classes that continues to prevent many countries from addressing historic inequalities and progressing on poverty reduction: that it is the poor's own fault that they are poor.
There is also a deep seated instinct in the NHS to ride out the storm, make a few minor adjustments, and carry on as before.
Just as tribes are based on the deep-seated human instinct of looking out for one's family and relatives, states depend on the human propensity to create and follow social rules.
To a nonparent it's hard to explain just how deep-seated your instinct is to protect your children.
Building a wall to keep people away is a deep-seated human instinct.
In the case of the multiplicative model, the penalization can reach 100%, a point that to some extent contradicts our deep-seated survival instinct.
We speak with Lissa Muscatine, a longtime adviser and speechwriter for Mrs. Clinton, about how those closest to the Democratic nominee have tried to combat this image — and about the deep-seated habits and instincts that can unintentionally hurt Mrs. Clinton as she tries to escape it.
For example, instinct can refer to reflexive or stereotyped behaviour, to an intuitive hunch, to a congenital aptitude or disposition, to a deep-seated impulsion (e.g., "maternal instinct"), to ways of acting that do not appear to have involved learning or experience in their development, or to knowledge that is inborn or subconsciously acquired.
The urge to be somebody other than oneself is so universal and so deep-seated that it may well be an elemental instinct of the human species.
All human beings have a deep-seated belief in, and need for, transformation, and I feel that baking appeals to that instinct, in a way that – at the risk of sounding naff – soothes the soul.
