Your Brain Invented a Liar

You did not decide to raise your hand just now — your brain did, about half a second before you felt like you chose anything at all. What Benjamin Libet's unsettling 1983 experiments revealed about the gap between neural action and conscious awareness didn't just rattle neuroscientists — it quietly dismantled our oldest story about who's actually in charge. We'll dig into what the science actually says, why it's weirder than the headlines, and what it means that the self doing the 'deciding' might be the last one to find out.