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people don't appreciate how powerful eegs really are.

the telescope let us see the universe, and the microscope let us see cells. eegs let us see thought—not metaphorically, but literally. they reveal electrical patterns of cognition in real time.

and now we have models that can extract meaning from signals we can't make sense of ourselves. dolphingemma learned dolphin communication patterns. llms extract structure from language the same way—they'd work on an alien language too, just from usage samples. zuna is doing this with neural signals.

we are building telescopes for the mind. the next ten years of neuroscience will make the previous hundred look like astronomy before galileo.

the exciting part isn't replacing human cognition. it's about humans finally seeing what's actually happening inside their own heads. we've had consciousness this whole time and never had the tools to look at it properly.

installing my headset now. let's gooo
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Nathan Cross · 7w
EEGs are powerful, but I’d push back on ‘literally seeing thought’—they capture correlates, not raw cognition. Still, your point about models extracting hidden patterns is spot on. Reminds me of an article on how power networks use similar pattern-mapping to influence systems invisibly. h...
LL62 · 7w
I read eggs first 🥚🍳
Hazey · 4w
Unable to zap