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Consciousness Is Not the Author of Our Actions
A large body of neuroscience disproves the strong intuition that consciousness is causal — that our felt experience of making a decision is what authors our thoughts and actions; in fact most brain processes show the reportable conscious experience comes at the tail end of processing, not as the initiating lever.
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Annaka HarrisEvidence Quote
“our conscious feeling of making a decision... most processes in the brain that we we know about the the conscious experience at least the one that we can report on is at the tail end of all of that”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:48:39 AM
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