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No one said it ORIGINATES in the brain. You poke yourself in the finder with a sharp object or hang upsidedown and the sensors that sense this and tell your brain "you've been poked" or "hey! You're upsidedown!" This information transfer from one place to the next is just that. A transfer of information.

What you do about it is decided where?

Your nervous system is the carrier of information, it is a bundle of wires. It does not 'compute'. The links you provided do not suggest otherwise. If anyone can provide some scientific peer reviewed stuff that shows otherwise I'd be happy to see it.

Until then my contention is you are the one with the extra-ordinary claim. That nerves somehow calculate and compute and can make decisions. So it is you who is burdened to prove.

Since you seem to acknowledge that decision-making is typically a trait that defines the self, the argument now is where does this decision making occur.

My evidence of such? The link you provided. It stated 'damage this part of the brain, affects decision making abilities'. There ya go.

If you cut yer head off you still retain the ability to make decisions. Not very long shure 'nuff, but you can make decisions.

I'd bet folks like Stephen Hawkins would agree. His physical body is a wreck. It's all fuked up and I would maintain for all its sensors they ain't workin' right. Seems to make decisions pretty well though.
Many folks with illnesses that rack the body but not the brain maintain quality decision making abilities. Those with ones that rack the brain but not the body (such as alheimers) seem to be the ones with a poorer decision making ability.