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But at some point, the direction of ambition reverses and what tends to initiate the change is pain.

Interestingly, they tend to suppress the areas that make up the brain’s “default mode network” and initiate more connections with other brain regions.

It didn’t take long before psychologists and philosophers from all over the world discussed Libet’s research and wondered: If our brain initiates a decision before we're consciously aware of it, then how "free" are our decisions, really?