As the question states, I don't understand how Current always chooses the path of least resistance.

How does it even "know" to pick that path

For example, if we have a short circuit which does not have any resistance (in an ideal case) and a path with a resistor, it'll go through the short circuit

And the explanation for as to why you shouldn't plug Ammeters in parallel is because all of the current would go there (since it's the path of least resistance) and burn it

But how and why, why and how does current know how to pick the path of least resistance.