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by twillmas 2757 days ago
Curious about differences in brain waves for desire versus intent. I might desire to say something awful to that person who just honked at me, but I probably shouldn’t - and right now wouldn’t. Would a BCI system be able to tell the difference?
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Haha, that's a fantastic point! And in order to get anywhere closer to making such differentiations, surface EEG S (used for the results into his article) would surely not suffice. The technology and results we are collecting currently are just scratching the surface, though I'd suspect if a BCI was capable of detecting intent of such complexity as the situation you described, it would also probably have the capacity to know whether it was something you planned to act on or not.