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The scientific data seem to support the idea that conscious experience is created by non-conscious processes in the brain ( i. e., there is subliminal processing that becomes conscious experience ).

These results have been interpreted to suggest that people are capable of action before conscious experience of the decision to act occurs.

Some argue that this supports epiphenomenalism, since it shows that the feeling of making a decision to act is actually an epiphenomenon ; the action happens before the decision, so the decision did not cause the action to occur.