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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by taneq on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:41AM (#17538824)
> It contains the idea that what your brain does is somehow separate from what “you” are thinking and doing

It's like those studies that can detect decision making a split second before the person is consciously aware that they've made the decision. It's usually presented as "'you' don't really make the decision", as if that person exists apart from their brain.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by mc32 on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:52AM (#17538847)
>can detect decision making a split second before the person is consciously aware that they've made the decision.

I think the revelation is that the decision people make is the negative one, that the affirmative one is the default and the negative one is the one which requires conscious effort.

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