In experiments beginning with neuroscientist Benjamin Libet and later confirmed with modern brain-scanning tools, researchers found something unsettling: the brain produces a “readiness potential” milliseconds to seconds before a person reports consciously deciding to act. This means that neural activity preparing your action is already underway before you feel like you “made a choice.” Your conscious awareness appears late to the party, more like an observer than a commander. Scientists still d

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