Building a New Type of Personal Computer and the Challenge of Understanding Human Intelligence

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The CEO of OpenBCI discusses their vision of building a new type of personal computer where the user has total agency over their own data and how the computer augments their mind. This chapter also introduces the topic of brain hacks.

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