#braing

The amygdala is a structure located deep in the anterior inferior temporal lobe of the brain. The amygdala receives projections mostly from the sensory regions of the thalamus and the cortex, but also from several other structures such as the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex. As with the hippocampus, most of the neural pathways that enter the amygdala are paired with other pathways that exit it. One of these output pathways is the ventral amygdalofugal pathway, which plays an important role in associative learning–of a conditioned fear, for example.

Our behavioral tendency to go with the flow reflects a fundamental truth about the way our brains are built. Of the 10 million bits of information that each of our brains process each second, only about 50 bits are devoted to deliberate thought—in other words, 0.0005%. We're wired not to be ever-vigilant. We're built to avoid continuous decision-making.