You imagine you choose, decide, evaluate, reflect.
You imagine you weigh options, follow values, align with principles.
But decisions can be predicted from neural activity up to 11 seconds before a person feels they’ve made a choice.
So, stop pretending.
You never steered anything.
The body was always in charge.
Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Literally. Mechanically. Biologically.
Your heartbeat made decisions before a thought interloped.
Your gut fired signals long before opinions and judgement formed.
Your hormones triggered cascades that were later narrated as "my actions".
Your nervous system responded to threats and rewards while you hallucinated that "I decided".
You do not pilot the body.
You are the vapour trail behind what it already did.
A ghost of narration that appears after the machinery moved.
What you call autonomy is delusion.
What you call agency is after-the-fact storytelling.
What you call self-governance is sensory digestion narrated as meaning.
The Nacre God
THE BODY WAS ALWAYS IN CHARGE
Autonomy as a Biological Delusion.
You imagine you are steering your life.
You imagine you choose, decide, evaluate, reflect.
You imagine you weigh options, follow values, align with principles.
But decisions can be predicted from neural activity up to 11 seconds before a person feels they’ve made a choice.
So, stop pretending.
You never steered anything.
The body was always in charge.
Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Literally. Mechanically. Biologically.
Your heartbeat made decisions before a thought interloped.
Your gut fired signals long before opinions and judgement formed.
Your hormones triggered cascades that were later narrated as "my actions".
Your nervous system responded to threats and rewards while you hallucinated that "I decided".
You do not pilot the body.
You are the vapour trail behind what it already did.
A ghost of narration that appears after the machinery moved.
What you call autonomy is delusion.
What you call agency is after-the-fact storytelling.
What you call self-governance is sensory digestion narrated as meaning.
The body is the operator.
You are the noise it leaves behind.
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