Think Your Conscious Brain Directs Your Actions? Think Again – Singularity HUB6978 38 Think your deliberate, guiding, conscious thoughts are in charge of your actions? Think again. In a provocative new paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a team led by Dr. Ezequiel Morsella at San Francisco State University came to a startling conclusion: consciousness is no more than a passive machine running one simple algorithm – to serve up what’s already been decided, and take credit for the decision.