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Split-brain aside, there are other studies suggesting a huge amount of post-hoc rationalization for human choices and decision making.

Like it seems obvious and intuitive that preferences form choices but it turns out that choices shape preferences just as easily.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679762095449...

At this point, I think there is little doubt humans regularly fabricate explanations of their behaviour unknowingly. It's just a question of how much and to what degrees.



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