I believe that your brain will select the option that seems to be most rewarding. We have been experimenting since birth and those experiments and tests help our brains to decide what is rewarding and what isn’t. For example a baby will walk into a wall and bang it’s head and it hurts. After a few attempts of that—they learn that doing this is a bad idea and they stop doing it. Another example might be trying an apple and an orange—perhaps the orange tasted bitter, the juice shot out into your eye and the texture of the fleshy skin of the segment was unpleasant, but when you tried the apple it was more agreeable—so based on that—you formed a preference for apples over oranges.
There are some preferences or choices where decoding the logic to it is obvious, but if you’ve read Jeff Hawkins book ‘A Thousand Brains’ you’ll be aware of a concept where there are thousands of voters inside your mind who deliberate on every choice or preference that you make—you can think of the votes as signals—and whichever signal is stronger—that is what you will lean toward. I don’t see it as being that you made a choice—it wasn’t random—you paused and a process occurred. Once that process completed you knew what your choice is. You will notice that sometimes its harder to decide something and other times its very quick and easy. When its quick and easy it means there was a very strong signal in a particular direction… the slower decision happens when you are close to a 50⁄50 split (When it is a binary choice—one or the other).
BTW—This is my first ever post on this site. Hopefully it is acceptable.
I believe that your brain will select the option that seems to be most rewarding. We have been experimenting since birth and those experiments and tests help our brains to decide what is rewarding and what isn’t. For example a baby will walk into a wall and bang it’s head and it hurts. After a few attempts of that—they learn that doing this is a bad idea and they stop doing it. Another example might be trying an apple and an orange—perhaps the orange tasted bitter, the juice shot out into your eye and the texture of the fleshy skin of the segment was unpleasant, but when you tried the apple it was more agreeable—so based on that—you formed a preference for apples over oranges.
There are some preferences or choices where decoding the logic to it is obvious, but if you’ve read Jeff Hawkins book ‘A Thousand Brains’ you’ll be aware of a concept where there are thousands of voters inside your mind who deliberate on every choice or preference that you make—you can think of the votes as signals—and whichever signal is stronger—that is what you will lean toward. I don’t see it as being that you made a choice—it wasn’t random—you paused and a process occurred. Once that process completed you knew what your choice is. You will notice that sometimes its harder to decide something and other times its very quick and easy. When its quick and easy it means there was a very strong signal in a particular direction… the slower decision happens when you are close to a 50⁄50 split (When it is a binary choice—one or the other).
BTW—This is my first ever post on this site. Hopefully it is acceptable.