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A neuroscientist is challenging the traditional idea that our brains follow a 'sense-think-act' process for decisions. He argues the feeling of choosing and the actual choice happen at the same time, triggered by the same brain activity. The framework might offer a better way to understand how we decide things, even without experiments yet.
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