Instinct
The immediate embodied responses drawn upon in Primal and instinctive modes of play.
Definition
In Lifestyle contexts, Instinct refers to the immediate embodied responses — reflexes, impulses, felt readings of another person's state — that are drawn upon in Primal and instinctive modes of play. The term is used descriptively rather than as a claim about biology, and honours the fact that trained attention and prior negotiation still shape how those responses are expressed.