There is no such thing as conscious thought, writes philosopher Peter Carruthers in blogs. He insists that conscious thought, judgment and volition are illusions and that they arise from processes of which we are forever unaware. What makes you think…
http://myfusimotors.com/2018/12/27/there-is-no-such-thing-as-conscious-thought/
There's a neat book called "what we believe but cannot prove", edited by John Brockman, that's a collection of science essays about what experts think of their fields, and a recurring theme in the neurobiology essays is exactly this: we make subconscious decisions, and then rationalize our choices afterwards.
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