Our problem is we use our head to do all our thinking instead of following our hearts. Instinct is a powerful tool that we are not using to it's full potential, that gut feeling is usually right and should be the gold standard for making decisions. If it feels right then it can't be wrong.

Animals are very good at this, when a tsunami comes thay can feel it coming and they all look for higher ground. I even heard that the indigenous people of the North Sentinel Island servived a tsunami using the same sense's. We have it in us, but the brain takes over and get's us in all sorts of trouble, and as you've pointed out the brain can be programmed.

Nice post @eco-alex