Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24546423-20140403144239/@comment-25645001-20141226213316

AnimeEx wrote: Their instincts are also due to their brain. If you think about it, how would Zed even know all the powers of the Aliens in the nemetrix if he relies on instincts alone, that would also give us doubts on how Zed even manage to transform, considering Ben still needs to operate the omnitrix or touch it. Other predators are quite smart aswell so they also think.

All species has their own instincts, though the difference of Sapients from non-sapients would be the common sense, the logic we follow, and our ability to reason. Other than that they are the same, having brains, baing able to think and having their own instincts.

Instincts are part of the consciousness, I think. They think

Here's what I think. Zed is able to use her powers as Nemetrix aliens by instincts, take Buglizard for example. I would think it would become an instinctal reaction for a Buglizard to emit fog to free themselves from a Lepidopterran's goo traps and as Zed becomes a Nemetrix alien, she gains all that alien's natural instincts. It's proven that the Omnitrix does this, with Big Chill and his reproductive instincts.

With the Omnitrix, it appears that knowing the basic use of an alien's main ability is there already (by instinct? Probably) but finer control over such abilities require practice. Diamondhead in And Then There Was 10 for example.

Zed learning to transform herself is probably by training like a dog. It's obvious that Zed is smarter than a normal dog during her time with Kevin. The Omnitrix has shown that it can be controlled by thought process (in Back With a Vengeance, so why wouldn't the Nemetrix follow this?) Zed has probably been trained so that when she sees Heatblast, in her mind it's "I've seen this before, I must do this now", like the command to action, just more like image to action.