Waveforms of Human Intention
Automating Empathy November 22, 2023 Andrew Mcstay
Consumer-level neurotechnologies and brain-computer interfaces, long imagined as merging with the Internet, now enable profiling of prethought—anticipating first-person experience before conscious awareness. Corporate interests, especially Meta and Elon Musk's Neuralink, drive this development. The surveillance is neurophenomenological, encompassing body and brain materiality. This raises profound questions about determination and relationships with technologies, each other, companies, and governments, challenging privacy and freedom of thought.