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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: if humans know stuff by instinct I.e. babies sucking a teet for milk, why can't more information be given to us in this way?
gpt
Because it’s not essential for survival and/or too complex. Instinctive behaviors have a survival value; babies who didn’t have suck reflex didn’t survive. They are not behaviors that are transmitted by an external action (I.e. a mother can’t wish for her baby to be born with knowledge of Pythagoras’ theorem) but behaviors that have developed spontaneously and enabled survival of the individual/species.