²⁰As already mentioned, Libet et al. (1983) proposed, rather controversially, that while the consciousness does not decide actions, it has a “veto” over actions: It can cancel an action sequence that the unconscious neural networks are trying to perform. This might provide an interesting explanation of how consciousness, in an advanced state of mindfulness and metacognition, seems to be able to prevent habitual actions (Baer, 2003; Garland et al., 2014), such as stopping the twelve-fold chain.