Most creatures’ landscapes are hard wired into their brains. The neuro-landmarks and neuro-pathways that make up the brain are programmed to reflect the outer landmarks and pathways that their senses notice and follow in the landscape — animals’ brains are mirrors of the outer landscapes in which they survive.
The same is true for most people…but it doesn’t have to be. As soon as we accept the “we” are not synonymous with our brain, or our brain/ body, or even our brain/body/outer landscape, we are free. Our consciousness is no longer determined from the outside. “We” are self-determined from the inside.