The human brain is arguably evolution’s greatest accomplishment. Give credit to your brain for language, learning, memory, comprehension, reasoning, judgment, perception and countless other cognitive abilities.
Our brains make us sentient beings. We are aware of our awareness. By age 3 the human toddler, due to brain development, has begun to develop the ability to reflect on its own activity and in time will be able to control its own thinking and behavior to accomplish self established goals. Remarkable, even miraculous!
So, if we are so brainy and sophisticated, why do we repeatedly make bad decisions? Why do we engage in war, rape the earth for its resources, categorize others by superficial differences, hoard wealth as others starve and blindly follow a leader to a destructive end?