Why You Think You Decide to ActYour brain makes up its mind before you do.
From the show
Brain Perception IllusionsDiscover the illusion of conscious choice. Groundbreaking experiments from the 1980s revealed that unconscious brain activity predates our awareness of making a decision. This means your feeling of making a spontaneous choice might just be your mind catching up to a process already underway. This simple yet profound insight challenges the very concept of free will, suggesting we are merely observers of decisions our brain has already set in motion.
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