It is human basic instinct to challenge but which comes first ?
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I don't think either is more likely to come first than the other.  For example "fight or flight." According to this theory introduced by a man named Walter Cannon, a person has two options when face with a challenge.  Some fight, some run.\n\nThat said, your question is like asking, "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?"  Who knows really?
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All enemies within a human being: Greed, false pride, deceit, anger, and these then are further divided into subtle servants of these four to guard and keep them alive perpetually.\n\nFor instance to feed the devil of the greed within, one employs deceit.\n\nTo feed the devil of the false prsde and ego oriented behavior, one becomes angry or praises others falsely---you scratch my back and I will scratch yours.\n\nThe essence of human birth is to get rid and ultimately annihilate these devils within\n\nOnce they are dead, one becomes free and in bliss
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The theory delves into concepts of predestination, predetermination, and free-will. It proposes that human beings, animals, and others are really not in control of their own lives. Rather, what we do, when we do it, and how we go about doing it are determined by a complex set of interactions provided by the environment, people around us, etc. It is not hard to imagine some machine or random algorithm controlling these interactions, much like AI in a video game (FEAR, call of duty II...).
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What we are interested in, what drives us, what we enjoy and find important, are very rarely logical.  If we lived by logic alone, I doubt we would ever have made it down from the trees, let alone out of the caves.  Humans are driven to learn, for no really logical reason other than instinctive drive- Logic requires quantifiable results for definable problems.  Where is the logic in eating?  To stay alive?  Where is the logic in living?  There isnt any-we live because we want to, we have kids and love them because we want to, are driven to...we use logic to get us what we want-Logic is only one tool that slavishly serves our mindless and beautiful passions.  One of those passions is to learn and explore, so yes, its imminently logical.
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Education. Not exactly in a school so to speak, but real education. People need to constantly challenge their own beliefs because it is when we become certain that we judge, which just leads to intolerance, hate, and lack of understanding. Note that you can still be firm in your beliefs while keeping an open mind to challenge them. It is this balance that should might help us achieve the goals mentioned in this question.\n\nThen again, we are human beings and we really suck, so maybe it can't be done. I'm willing to keep an open mind to both possibilities.
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Dogs work on instinct, while humans work on free-will.  You only have to use simple reinforcement on a dog, outside=good inside=bad, while with a kid you need to make them want to go.  It can be next to impossible to make someone want to do anything.
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Since Cain picked up the club and beat his brother to death after he felt the violent impulse, I would have to say the impulse came first. Over time people just got "better" at making weapons to answer the call.
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Basic training is designed to subdue the ego in order to make the individual more group-oriented. Western egos are about the hardest to crack so it takes quite a bit.
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Probably with drive, focus and self-motivation.
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A challenge is always better....  You'll be more respected if you're not easy.  Wait a while, and build the anticipation.
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maybe you want a challenge
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An Ability to Resist.
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Biologically wired to be so...something to do with propogation of the species.  The thing is...humans have the capacity to make decisions.  So you decide to be a player.
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i think no one wants to do wrong on porpose at all times. One reason people do wrong is because they react out of impulse of the moment or out of insticts without taking the time to think things over first before acting. Other times they do something wrong because they let themselfs convinced and draged into action by so called friends. \nIs in nature of human beeings to feel attracted by forbiden things (which in most cases are wrong) and is in human nature to feel it hard to resist temptations ( we got an example from old times in Adam and Eve who although were aware they were not alowed to touch the forbiden fruit Eve still did it and then convinced Adam to do it also).\nWe can never expect someone to do only the right thing cuz no one is perfect , we are submited to mistakes. The only way we can  make up for the wrong choises we make is to learn from them and dont repeat them.
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Simply that there are two things at work, here. Firt of all, Humans have Free Will, and their own free will can lead to problems, the natural consequences to their choices and their behavior. \n\nSecond thing is random chance, not a Gd who condemns and where every little thing is a result of some punishment, or, for that matter, a reward:::\n\n            ""Ecclesiastes 9:11  I returned, and saw under \n            the sun, that the race is not to the swift, \n            nor the battle to the strong, neither yet \n            bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of \n            understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; \n            BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENS TO THEM ALL.""
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It's instinct. Like when you take an animal out of it's natural habitat and just drop it off somewhere, it can finds it's way back.\n\nAnimal instinct is pretty extraordinary.
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There are many things that we do that do not require our conscious brain.  Whatever things you are talking about, perhaps the subconscious got started on it before the consciousness got involved.  When cockroaches feel stimulus on their back legs, they begin running before their conscious mind knows why they are running.  It's just like the other poster said, the impulse telling your hand to pull oout of a fire doesn't require your conscious mind to make a decision, it starts the process for you.\n\nIt's an interesting idea that this might have to do with quantum wierdness, but I think experiments woudl reject that.  I encourage you to keep thinking of things like this and hypothesizing.  Eventually you may be teaching us instead of the other way around :-)