Get Out of Your Own Way!

Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers
now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are
aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up
its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an
eternity at the speed of thought.

Their findings challenge conventional notions of choice.

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“We think our decisions are conscious,” said
neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for
Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering this research.
“But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg.
This doesn’t rule out free will, but it does make it implausible.” link