I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

When we think, when we do anything, neurons fire in our brains. They give off tiny electrical

discharges and those electrical discharges can be picked up by these consumer EEG, electro

and soft-fogography devices. They can be a headband, they can be newer ones are integrating

into earbuds or headphones and it's easy to imagine how if these headsets become more

widespread and people have access to the brain data that the headsets and earbuds and other

things are generating that that kind of the bleminal priming to probe the brain for information

can be possible without a person even being aware of it.

Let's need a Farahaini. She's a law professor who like me has a fascination with technology.

That's taken her on a deep dive into neuro technology, the ability to read and record

our brainwaves, our literal brainwaves, the electrical language of our thoughts and actions.

Her new book The Battle for Your Brain explores the many good things that can come of this

ability. But it also warns how allowing others to weave drop on our brains with or without

our knowledge can threaten our rights to privacy, freedom of thought and self-determination.

I'm so eager to talk to you because your wonderful book put me in touch with things that

I didn't even know were possible.

Right.

Amazing neuro technology. It's already here.

It has already arrived and that is I think probably the first I hope major contribution

of the book is that these technologies that I've been following for quite a long time

now. I think most people don't, they're just not aware that it's already here that it

is the right.

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