The Delusion of Decision Making: What We Get Wrong About Our Brains Neuroscientist Tom James from Indiana University challenges the conventional wisdom on decision making, suggesting that it's not as clear cut as we think.
For decades, scientists have described decision making as a linear process: perception, cognition, action. However, this "sandwich model" doesn't fit the complex neural mechanisms at play.
James proposes an alternative framework where decision making is not a discrete process but rather an emergent property of sensory, sensorimotor, and motor processes interacting continuously with the environment.