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Actually I've heard that scientists have proved that your awareness of your brain's decision sort of comes after the decision has already been made by your brai

• coldtea 11y ago
  >Actually I've heard that scientists have proved that your awareness of your brain's decision sort of comes after the decision has already been made by your brain. I've read that too. But philosophically I think people draw the wrong conclusions from this -- like we're puppets and the brain is some autonomous third agent. My brain and my consiousnless are part of the same thing, so making the decision (in the background) and having it come to awareness a little later, is still the same entity "thinking". I don't have to think "out aloud" in my brain (consciously) for myself to make a decision: my brain can make it drawing directly and subconsciously from the same memories, sensory inputs, biases etc that I have available when I think.