The really horrifying part? Our logical faculties never fully override the primal systems. We like to think of ourselves as rational beings, but in reality, logic is a thin layer on top of ancient chemical-based instincts. Even the smartest people in the world still make decisions based on feeling more often than not—logic is more of a justification tool rather than a guiding force. So when you step back and look at the whole picture, it’s kind of unsettling: we're just highly sophisticated, semi-rational creatures running on hacked-together survival algorithms, trying to make sense of a world that’s far more complex than what our brains originally evolved to handle.

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