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Wikademia: New page: {{Refimprove|date=October 2007}} '''Cognitive liberty''' is the freedom to be the absolute sovereignty of the individual’s own consciousness. It is an extension of the concepts of freed...

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New page: {{Refimprove|date=October 2007}} '''Cognitive liberty''' is the freedom to be the absolute sovereignty of the individual’s own consciousness. It is an extension of the concepts of freed...

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'''Cognitive liberty''' is the freedom to be the absolute sovereignty of the individual’s own consciousness. It is an extension of the concepts of freedom of thought and self-ownership.

The nonprofit Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, founded and directed by Dr. Wrye Sententia, defines cognitive liberty as "the right of each individual to think independently and autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought."

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An individual who enjoys cognitive liberty is free to alter the state of their consciousness using any method they choose, including but not limited to meditation, yoga, [[psychoactive drug]]s, prayer, etc. Such an individual would also never be forced to change their consciousness against their will. So, for example, a child who is forced to consume [[Ritalin]] as a prerequisite for attending public school, does not enjoy cognitive liberty, nor does an individual who is forced to take [[anti-psychotics]] in order to be fit to stand trial, nor an individual who faces criminal charges and punishment for changing the state of their consciousness by consuming a mind-altering drug, although other explanations for criminalization of some drugs do not fit this argument.

:"We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It's an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we're talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not ''a'' religious sensibility, ''the'' religious sensibility. -[[Terence McKenna]] - ''Non-Ordinary States Through Vision Plants''

[[Timothy Leary]] has summarized this concept by postulating two “new commandments for the molecular age”:

*Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men.
*Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from changing his or her own consciousness.

The primary proponents of this philosophy in the [[United States]] are the American Civil Liberties Union and the [[Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics]].

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== External links ==
* [http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/ CCLE website] The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) coined the terms "cognitive liberty" and "cognitive security" in 2000.
* [http://www.wired.com/culture/geekipedia/magazine/geekipedia/cognitive_liberty Cognitive liberty - Sell v. U.S. Supreme Court]

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