Brain Candy Daily

The Decision You Made Before You Knew You Made It

Episode Summary

Your brain quietly commits to an action about half a second before you're consciously aware of deciding anything — and neuroscientists have the timestamps to prove it. We dig into the landmark Libet experiments, what they actually do (and don't) tell us about free will, and why the most unsettling part isn't that your choices might be predetermined, but that your brain may be running a subtle editing service on your own experience of reality. Last episode we found out your brain invented color; turns out it might be inventing *you* too.