RE: Fixed-Action-Patterns: The Heart And Soul of Survival Instincts
I appreciate the courtesy of your reply. In your OP, you state:
"...everything is reduced to its basic fixed pattern constituents. Fixed-Action-Patterns define all of our survival instincts..."
and in your reply to my comment you state:
"Free Speech is not a fixed action pattern. It cannot be classified as such — much like a chair can't be classified as human value. It is irrelevant. same about hermits, writing."
Since your request was:
"...come up with a human behaviour that is not directly bound to a fixed action pattern."
and free speech, writing, and voluntary solitude are human behaviours, and not irrelevant at all, but exemplary of those features of our species that differentiate us from others, I reckon we can agree that not all human behaviour is directly bound to instinctive fixed action patterns.
free speech is not a derivable of a fixed-action-pattern behaviour. freedom is. speech is.
those are rather self evident.
I agree these things are self evident. You stated in the OP that 'everything' was a result of fixed action patterns, instinct, and I do not agree with that.
Freedom of speech is a thing. It is a feature of human society, of every society where individual humans interact, and not merely a product of instinct. I point out that therefore there are human behaviours which are not the result of fixed action patterns, which you requested in the OP.