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Aug. 23, 2012

There’s Someone in My Head, But It’s Not Me

by David Eagleman

Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision making. And most of the time, it’s not.

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