epicurus comments on Rationalization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: epicurus 03 March 2015 03:25:03PM 0 points [-]

According to this article, one can predict a decision 7 seconds before it is actually made. Doesn't this, in some sense, mean that a large amount of our thought process(certainly those 7 seconds) are actually rationalizing a decision we have already made?

Is my thinking off or is this one more thing to actively guard against and realize when we are letting our unconscious decide for us?