For the Thinking Man.

[Artur Axmann]

In that case, would you say the ability to make difficult choices is more adaptive or less adaptive than by instinct alone?

Or problem solving. For example, the ability to build tools adapted to perform a task that would be arduous or impossible otherwise?

instinct ,in a purely biological sense ,doesn't exist in humankind.

Everyone is a blank slate at birth.

Everyone is a product of their environment and education [upbringing]

At some point the ego develops which leads into the psychic progression enabling social coexistence .