From:        Andrew Stodden, eos@ghost.cc.cmu.edu

Neural pre reading is accomplished via a sensor net woven into the
softsuit, the cpu will learn the thought patterns of the user,
building a rapport. [...]

We never considered this.  At least not at a rewritable level.  Not
everyone wants something that tries to predict movements, it can be
very annoying and can cause a lot of problems in the middle of a
battle.

[...]

The computer predict movements based on brain activity. It senses 
brain activity that occurs before an arm is moved, let's say, and 
prepares to move that arm, allocating power, maybe shifting the angle 
of thrust if the suit is airborne to maintain center of gravity.

Perhaps this is not applicable, but you might consider the noise issues 
involved here. If you have a system that reads human responses at 
anything below a conscious level, you'll going to have a lot of trouble 
sorting out actual responses that need to be handled, versus random 
subconscious impulses that need to be ignored. (See David Brin's _Earth_ 
for an example of this; it's a minor topic in the book, but hooks in well 
with one of the major themes, and it's a d*mn good book anyway.)



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