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Neuroprivacy and Cognitive Liberty
Published in L. Syd M Johnson, Karen S. Rommelfanger, The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, 2017
Cognitive liberty clearly includes the right to be free of external coercion over our mental functioning. Some argue that it also includes the right to use pharmaceuticals (at least legal ones) to control our mental functioning as we see fit. We will discuss the latter case in the section on human enhancement and in this section will focus on use of pharmaceuticals by agents of social control.
Making Progress in the Ethics of Digital and Virtual Technologies for Mental Health
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2022
Scholars like Donna Haraway have long argued that we should re-frame the relationship between humans and technology, as in the challenging “Cyborg Manifesto” (Haraway 1985). The sociologist Alan Prout (2004) argues that children should be seen as akin to techno-humans From these perspectives, the important ethical analysis is not what technology is “doing to” an apparently autonomous human mind or brain. Rather, we should start with an assumption of a “hybrid of machine and organism,” and ethical analysis should focus on the conditions—individual, social and structural—that give rise to an ability to be a moral agent and to treated as having moral worth. According to Judith Butler (2005), this ethical analysis must grapple with (what she views as) the fact that we are not free in the way that presumptions about “cognitive liberty” suggest. Butler writes:
Deep Fakes and Memory Malleability: False Memories in the Service of Fake News
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2020
Cognitive liberty is an umbrella-like right that incorporates many of the standard rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of choice. The right to cognitive liberty is the right to make your own choices, unencumbered by the unknown or undesired influence of others. When false memories are implanted such that we are primed to accept fake news, our choices and freedoms are inhibited and manipulated. If we are coerced into accepting fake news, by way of implanted memories, our rights have arguably been violated.