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Who makes the decisions in your life?  You or your brain?  And who knows first?

You are walking down the street and come to a fork in the proverbial road.  You have to go in one direction or another.  Is it possible that part of you knows before you are even conscious of the decision?

The video below tells us that our brain knows what we are going to do a full 6 seconds before we are conscious of even making the decision.

Jeffrey Schwartz, MD says that what we do have in changing behavior is veto power over the decisions our brains make.  My question is this.

How can that be so if our brains decide before we know it?

That seems to be somewhat of a conundrum.  It does add  some credence of somehow slowing things down and pausing before we act on many things.  My guess would be that there are many times when our brain has decided for us in an automatic process.

But is this true or not? I’m not a scientist, but I wonder if an experiment could be designed that could determine this. I don’t know about you, but it troubles me to think that my non-conscious brain is ahead of me in the making of decisions.

Click over and take a look at the video and let me know what you think.