Summary

The website content discusses the predictability of human reactions, rooted in our cognitive mechanisms, which are comparable to instinctual behaviors in animals, as explained by Konrad Lorenz and supported by various scientific discoveries.

Abstract

The article "Why Are Human Reactions So Predictable?" delves into the concept that humans often believe they have control over their actions, when in fact many reactions are pre-programmed responses to environmental stimuli. Drawing from the work of Konrad Lorenz, a Nobel Prize-winning zoologist and ethologist, it is suggested that these automatic reactions are essential for survival and are similar to those observed in animals. The content emphasizes that animals, including humans, are equipped with innate behavioral patterns that dictate their actions, which can be seen in the way wild animals instinctively know how to hunt without prior learning or observation. The article posits that human behavior is heavily influenced by these innate patterns, as well as by psychological types as discovered by Carl Jung, making human reactions largely predictable. It argues against the notion of complete human freedom and the ability to make truly independent decisions, suggesting instead that we are often driven by instinctive and preconditioned responses. The article calls for the development of intelligence and the evolution of our cognitive mechanisms beyond these inherited programs to achieve genuine control over our behavior and to resist manipulation by those who exploit our predictable nature for profit.

Opinions

The author believes that our sense of control over our behavior is largely an illusion, as our reactions are predetermined by our cognitive mechanisms.
Konrad Lorenz's research is presented as foundational in understanding that both human and animal behaviors are governed by innate, pre-programmed responses necessary for survival.
The article suggests that the predictability of human reactions is a result of these ingrained behavioral patterns, which are comparable to the instincts seen in the animal kingdom.
It is argued that the discoveries of ethology and psychology, such as those by Carl Jung regarding psychological types, confirm the limited nature of human freedom and decision-making.
The article criticizes the commercial world for exploiting the predictability of human behavior, which goes against the interest of individual autonomy.
It is proposed that through intelligence and self-awareness, humans can transcend their instinctive nature and develop their psychological functions to gain true control over their actions.
The author advocates for the use of dream therapy, as per Carl Jung's method of interpretation, as a means to evolve our cognitive mechanisms and achieve a more advanced state of consciousness.

Why Are Human Reactions So Predictable?

Learn what you must do to control your behavior in all situations.

Most of the time we have no control over our behavior and our reactions, but we are not aware of this fact. We believe that we decide what to do, but this is a false impression.

This truth was clearly explained by Konrad Lorenz and demonstrated by the findings of several biologists.

“Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.” (Wikipedia)

He concluded that virtually all of our reactions are previously prepared in our cognitive mechanism. These reactions automatically start working whenever we receive a specific stimulus from our environment. The same phenomenon is observed in the behavior of irrational animals.

All animals are prepared in advance so that they can survive in a dangerous environment where they have numerous natural enemies before they learn how to react. If they were not prepared in advance to survive in these conditions, they would die before having any chance of survival.

Likewise, wild animals know how to kill their prey and are able to capture them on their first attempts, even before they observe another animal of the same species doing so to imitate its behavior.

Even animals kept in isolation, away from other animals of their species, are able to make the right moves, in the right sequence, and successfully kill their prey in their first attempts, without relying on learning.

All animal reactions follow mechanisms that form various behavioral patterns. The same is true for human beings in many ways, although some of our attitudes depend on learning or are based on imitating the behavior of others.

Lorenz concluded that since our reactions are programmed and we act without thinking most of the time, we cannot speak of ‘human freedom’. In other words, we don’t ‘decide’ anything as we imagine. We are driven to act one way or another instinctively.

Many other scientific discoveries prove his claims to be true because our ability to think logically is limited, including Carl Jung’s discoveries about the psychological types. All human beings behave according to the characteristics of their psychological type, and this is why human reactions are predictable.

However, these findings go against the interests of traders who manipulate people for profit. This is why they don’t want to let everyone know that we cannot be held responsible for our choices or our actions under most circumstances.

Lorenz was attacked by many people who were dissatisfied with his findings, and Jung’s remarkable discoveries were disregarded by the world, but the truth must ultimately be respected so that we can learn how to control our behavior and act wisely.

We have to develop our intelligence to become superior creatures and stop being preconditioned animals that simply follow their wild nature.

We have to overcome the behavioral programs we have inherited in our cognitive mechanism in order to be able to decide what to do and develop all our psychological functions so that we stop being slaves to our psychological type.

Most of our brain remains in a primitive condition because it hasn’t evolved like our conscience. This part of our brain refuses to evolve and only harms us.

Therefore, we must go through an awareness process so that we can transform our wild self into a positive component of our conscious part.

We can follow this evolutionary process through dream therapy according to the method of interpretation discovered by Carl Jung, and develop our whole brain in a positive way.

Only then will we become real human beings instead of being wild animals that merely seem to be human.

Only then will we have sound mental health and we will be able to control our behavior instead of being dominated by instinctive reactions, and only then will we stop being manipulated by those who take advantage of our defects to impose what they want.