The word "instinct" actually covered quite a broad range.
In fact, many actions that could be carried out without conscious thought could be classified as instinct.
Humans had few instincts, only some simple reflexes. For example, when a hand touched fire, it would instinctively pull back before the brain could even react.
Many organisms, however, had vast numbers of actions imprinted into their instincts. There was a famous experiment in which a cat had its brain removed, yet it could still walk, run, and even leap over obstacles.
There had also been a chicken that survived for more than a year after having its head cut off.
Many basic neural reflexes were controlled by the spinal cord or other neural centers and did not require the brain's involvement.
The more Theus thought about it, the more horrified he became. If he were asked to design a race specifically for this world—one that could use technology without being affected by Cognitive Interference—then this was almost the best possible workaround.
Unable to subjectively form incorrect cognitions, they could simply embed their manufacturing abilities into instincts that did not involve the brain's conscious thought, perfectly bypassing the mechanism of Cognitive Interference.
Under such circumstances, no matter how quickly they learned, nothing would go wrong. And the Untouchables just happened to have their learning ability maxed out.
Everything was such a coincidence, such a precise coincidence, one link fitting perfectly into the next.
The more he thought about it, the more he sensed the terror within it, and the more strongly he felt the strangeness of this world.
"What did the Untouchables say about this?"
"They didn't feel there was anything strange about it at all. Just like humans have knee-jerk reflexes—no one thinks there's anything wrong with that."
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