That is another example of something that will come up in the course: scientists, often being lousy philosophers, irrationally confuse the self with the awareness of the self. Thus that article confuses “consciousness of me” with “me” and thus confuses “what I, as a person with rational faculties reasoned out to do” with “my consciousness of that,” which is “the model subsequently built to report back on what I did” and not the actual person making the decision. Creating a false dichotomy in result, you can come up with false theories like that “I did not decide to do x because I only became aware that I decided to do x a fifth of a second after I decided to do x.” More in the course. And full discussion can ensue there.

Good question! The link for that didn’t publish for some reason. So I’ve put it back in. But directly, it’s:

http://secularactivism.org/?p=732

Thanks! Links restored. Something went wrong in the publishing process. But all fixed now.