Scientists can now mark the exact point a behavior stops being a decision, and for anyone who watches themselves for a living it names something you have felt happen and never timed

Scientists can now mark the exact point a behavior stops being a decision, and for anyone who watches themselves for a living it names something you have felt happen and never timed

Tension: The experience of deciding feels continuous — intention shades into action without a visible break — but research now shows there is a discrete, measurable moment at which the brain commits and stops integrating new information. The gap between how deliberation feels from the inside and what it actually is has real consequences for anyone trying to understand why change happens when it does. Noise: Habit-formation research and behaviora…