Hi,
I’ve heard a few claims that there is brain activity that happens before we become aware of a new thought… so first there is subconscious processing, then we are conscious of a new thought.
I think there was an experiment where people had to press a button whenever they felt like it, and there was brain activity a few hundred milliseconds before they pressed the button…
But maybe they were conscious of the first bit of brain activity… and it just took a long time for the part controlling their muscles to react… (so the delay between initial brain activity and consciousness was 0)
How can scientists be sure that the area of the brain that had brain activity first is not a part that we are directly conscious of?