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It is often expected that “melding mind and machine” using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) will improve human’s intellectual abilities. However, a machine may misinterpret brain signals, or use information from the brain that was not intended to share with it. It is unclear what a machine should consider as human will if several wishes are present at the same time. Thus, understanding will formation and our abilities to monitor will expression in interaction with machines are critical. Because of the limitations of conscious processes it could be useful to design ways to monitor BCI-based will expression unconsciously but reliably. Fast eye-brain-computer interfaces (Protzak et al., 2013; Shishkin et al., 2016) may serve as a model for studying these aspects of interaction. They may become a tool for brain augmentation themselves, by freeing resources for consciousness and volition. Acknowledgement. This work was supported by the grant 18-19-00593 from the Russian Science Foundation.