'Voluntary' is a delusion

This has a ridiculously high geek level so I highlited the two really important sentences. Because I want you to read on to the next entries not go take a nap.

The illusion of conscious will emerges from temporal misattribution between neural commitment and subjective awareness of intention. Libet's seminal experiments demonstrated that the readiness potential—measurable neural activity indicating motor preparation—begins approximately 550 milliseconds before participants report conscious awareness of their intention to move. Subsequent neuroimaging studies using fMRI and EEG have extended this temporal gap, showing that specific motor decisions can be decoded from neural activity in the frontopolar cortex and parietal cortex up to 7-10 seconds before conscious awareness of choice. The supplementary motor area and pre-supplementary motor area exhibit preparatory activity that precedes subjective intention by several hundred milliseconds even for seemingly spontaneous movements. This temporal architecture suggests that what we experience as conscious decision-making represents post-hoc narrative construction by prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions rather than causal initiation of action. The sense of agency—the feeling that "I" caused this movement—appears to be a retrospective attribution mechanism that creates coherent selfhood from the distributed processing of motor planning, sensory prediction, and outcome monitoring systems. Even complex cognitive decisions show neural commitment patterns that precede conscious deliberation, indicating that the experience of voluntary choice may reflect the brain's continuous predictive modeling and action selection processes rather than a discrete moment of conscious will. The conscious mind functions more as an interpreter of decisions already made by unconscious neural networks than as the executive controller it subjectively appears to be. (And a lot of Feldenkrais is about sneaking past that delusion and addressing the real influencers of movement.)