This seems reasonable at first glance... The brain often makes an observation that takes too long, and then pretends it knew the results all along. Brain scans

This seems reasonable at first glance... The brain often makes an observation that takes too long, and then pretends it knew the results all along. Brain scans have shown that the decision to do X has happened way before the awareness of action X has been detected - mostly due to a 'society of mind'. I don't think the assertions are all correct, in all cases however. I do think we spend much of our time on a kind of autopilot, where (the bit of your mind we identify as you) is essentially a passenger. Our actual conscious thought is probably much smaller than we'd like to believe. I'm looking forward to @bencollier49's thoughts/blogpost.