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Not only that, but we may not have any control over it at all.
Apparently some research has shown that any conscious decisions, such as you deciding to write your comment or to read my comment, are done automatically by the brain and then decoded by your "interpereter", which makes sense of the situation (and past situations up to that point) and gives you a reason as to why you did that, making you think it was a conscious action.
For example, you decide you are hungry, so you reach out in front of you, pick up an apple and eat it. What actually happens is your brain, being in charge of everything, knows you are hungry so moves your arm to eat the apple. This information, your arm moving and the consumption of the apple, is sent through your interpreter to make sense of it. It knows you were hungry already and it knows that apples make you less hungry and it knows that your arm is used to pick things up when you eat them. It stitches this information together to make it seem like you are having the conscious thought to move your arm to eat the apple because you are hungry. So it feels like you are in charge of doing all of those things when really you were not!
What is even more amazing is that this sending and receiving of information takes some time to do, so there is a gap of a few milliseconds between the physical action occurring and your brain to finish interpreting it. This means that what you are perceiving at this very moment is actually what happened a few milliseconds ago!
Okay, okay sorry for all the words and the poor explanation. I just finished reading this book and I was eager to share some of the information I learned.
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. Thomas Metzinger.
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Brain. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist)
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. Gregg Caruso and Owen Flanagan, Eds. (Part 3: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Meaning in Life has 6 essays by Derk Pereboom, Caruso, Gazzaniga, and others, and other essays scattered throughout the book are also pertinent)
I don't have a lot of time but you will find more info about agency with:
There is a lot more in the bibliography if you want to dig in it. Overall, neuroscience show that virtually all human cognitive features can be decomposed. Crazy at first when we learn about clinical neuropsychology but so interesting!
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