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Our mind is really thinking or responding ?

Our mind responds to surroundings like social rewards and punishment , religious culture , country , politics ,  media , education , workplace culture , family environment etc..  Whatever information has been given as input and based on that mind response as output . Just think about that .. last time when you had independent authentic opinions or thoughts that are truly yours as they came from inside you ..Not from the outside word. Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlav coined the term "conditioning" a classical conditioning and environment conditioning .. He proved his point by dog food and bell experiment .. where the dog is not even hungry but as hears the sound of the bell starts salivation even food is not  there ..  Exactly our mind is being conditioned by society , religious culture and all surrounding.. Such a phenomenon of behaviorism is well understood by ancient sages in india and they force us to follow religious texts in terms of "Sanskaar". but why ? The w...