I thought the level of resolution of these things is comparable to .. a few tsunami warning buoys in an ocean. It's not going to be logging anyones inner monolouge to a text file anytime soon. and also there is a real normalisation challenge, as the signals vary so much form one perosn to the next.

>But although EEG might not read people’s thoughts, “it would be equally misleading to suggest that it cannot reveal meaningful information about their cognitive states,” says Pietro Aricò, professor of bioengineering at the Sapienza University of Rome. And as consumer EEG devices begin to incorporate AI and are able to conduct increasingly sophisticated analyses, data collected on the outer surface of the brain could be enough to decode intimate features of our mental lives, including our thoughts, emotions, and personality, says Rafael Yuste, co-founder of the Neurorights Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting people’s brain data rights.

I wonder what these features are.