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You reach for your morning coffee. It feels like your choice. It wasn’t. Beneath that simple gesture, a storm of neural activity had already decided your action long before your conscious mind ever registered the intent. Milliseconds before you became aware of the decision, your brain had already initiated it. Signals moved through your motor cortex, your basal ganglia selected the action from a library of habits, and your predictive systems confirmed it as the most efficient next step. By the