No Brain Boss Decides Your Choices | Science News

Science News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 26, 2026 · 1m

Neuroscientist Tom James from Indiana University is shaking up decision science—arguing there’s no central “decision maker” in the brain. What we call choosing is actually a real-time dance between senses, movement, and environment, not a step-by-step process. He likens decisions to a center of mass—an abstract concept, not a physical force—and even cites wall-following robots that act purposefully without any internal decision system. This flips the script on neuroscience: instead of hunting for a brain controller, we need to study how brain, body, and world interact dynamically to produce…