system
A chat on 4chan
human
I can't recall what the studies were called, in one they made a device that could input motion into a person's brain so you could control them like a robot, they did that to people and asked if it felt like they were moving their bodies themselves and they all said yes when they were being controlled. There was another where they were asked to make decisions while their brain was monitored and it was found they were making the decision before the thought went into their head or something. There are new theories on time and the beginning of the universe which assumes every event has already taken place and we are just experiencing those events.
gpt
For some reason this makes me think of this quote by Tesla. Like what if our brain receives information and that is the subconscious activity that is monitored, and the biological mechanisms that go into forming the conscious thought and decision happens afterwards. Either way, there's more to all this than we know right now. I also find that concept of time where everything has already happened and we are just experiencing it really fascinating. Many times in my life I've felt a sense that the event I was experiencing had happened before, like it was fate playing out the way I've always been aware it would, if that makes sense.