> There are psychology experiments which indicate that the explanation for a decision is generated after the decision is made. While this is true (IIRC it foun

> There are psychology experiments which indicate that the explanation for a decision is generated after the decision is made. While this is true (IIRC it found that for the decisions it was tracking, the "real" decision was made subconsciously seven seconds before it was consciously stated), it is trivially disprovable that this is universally true. All you have to do is present people with a novel decision to make, and force them to make it in a very short amount of time. Since we know that humans are capable of reacting and making decisions based on new information in well under seven seconds, it is clearly dangerous to overgeneralize the results of the experiments you cite.