ABSTRACT
This chapter examines neuroprivacy and cognitive liberty from three different perspectives: cognitive/affective coercion; brain monitoring and privacy; and human enhancement. It focuses on use of pharmaceuticals by agents of social control and human enhancement. The ideas of cognitive liberty and neuroprivacy are the results of neuroscientific advances that will give them unprecedented powers to peer into brain process or manipulate brain function. Society is beginning a serious conversation over what kinds of access the state should have to the thought processes of its citizens and to what degree they should allow citizens unfettered rights to alter their own brain chemistries. Cognitive and affective coercion refer instead to the degree to which those in positions of social control—the government, courts, military, police, even parents over their children, and so on—have the right to use neurotechnologies of various kinds to try and control or probe an individual's thought processes.
