cognition

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Interestingly, the brain doesn’t make decisions and then act, it acts and then the “explanatory” side of the brain creates a narrative on why that action was taken.

That’s not to say we’re acting irrationally, we are acting for reasons, it’s just that those reasons are unconscious reasons.

We then explain our actions in order to communicate to others.

VSauce video on it