A "decision" is highly complex emergent behaviour. Looking for it in a single neuron is like asking if there's a single air molecule where a gale started. We almost certainly will never identify single neurons corresponding to single mental ideas. A "go to the cinema" neuron versus "go to the park" likely don't exist. What is more likely is that large 'flows' of neutral activity correspond to these things or to what we call 'decisions'. However when we think of more and more specific mechanical things (like lifting a finger) then it's more likely this corresponds to very small areas of neurons that controlled their activation and it makes a bit more sense to talk about that being a switch to 'decide' to move a finger. But the decision itself is actually the vast cloud of neutral activity leading into it not a single thing.
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