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A Neuroscientist Just Challenged One of The Brain's Biggest Assumptions


You may think you made a decision to read this article, but did you, really?  What we consider to be making a decision might in fact be a different kind of brain interaction between what we perceive, and the actions we take in response – less of a step-by-step linear process, and more of a circular feedback loop.

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