# Buridan's donkey: Neuroscience resolves medieveal decision-making conundrum

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**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/buridans-donkey-neuroscience-resolves-medieveal-decision-making-conundrum/1313 "2018-12-11T14:31:17Z")\
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> **[Buridan's donkey: Neuroscience resolves medieveal decision-making conundrum:...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181210134902.htm)**
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> The brain updates its preferences in real-time in order to choose between two equally attractive options, reveals a human neuroimaging and eye-tracking study. The research shows how we avoid becoming paralyzed by indecision like the starving donkey...

  
The brain updates its preferences in real-time in order to choose between two equally attractive options, reveals a human neuroimaging and eye-tracking study. The research shows how we avoid becoming paralyzed by indecision like the starving donkey in a famous thought experiment.