You may be right that this is a stretch to apply to any one phenomenon, but from my studies on conciousness the findings of this paper are consistent with most

You may be right that this is a stretch to apply to any one phenomenon, but from my studies on conciousness the findings of this paper are consistent with most of what I’ve seen. Basically the brain sort of tells us stories constantly and consciousness is more of an after effect. There was an explosion in the field of neuroscience with the high avalability of FMRI devices. The big experiment that seems to be repeatable is telling someone to make a desicion while watching their brain, and the watcher could predict the decision ahead before the decider had signaled their decision. Some experiments seemed to go further and show the brain made the decision before the person was aware of their decision.