Wrye Sententia

Wrye Sententia is director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), a nonprofit research, policy, and public education center working to advance and protect freedom of thought into the 21st century.  Dr.  Sententia has guided the CCLE in sponsoring the National Science Foundation’s initiatives aimed at “Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance.” In 2002, Sententia provided comments to the appointed President’s Council on Bioethics in Washington D.C., on the topic of cognitive enhancement technologies and in October 2004 debated members of the Council on the democratic values of the US Declaration of Independence in relation to emergent enhancement biotechnologies and human freedom.

Wrye is a Postdoctoral Lecturer, at the University of California, Davis and serves on the technology ethics advisory board for the Nanoethics Group.  In addition to her nonprofit work on the policy and ethics of freedom of thought in an age of neurotechnology, she currently teaches both for the UC Davis Technocultural Studies Program and the University Writing Program. With Lexington Press, she will publish an academic book that considers cyberpunk science fiction and the impact of novel media, medicine, and technology on freedom of thought.

Home Page: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/pressroom/wrye_sententia.htm

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Articles

"The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your Ears"   Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology, 1(2), Spring 2007  Apr 9, 2007

"No Ritalin, No Education!"   Center for Bioethics and Culture  Mar 1, 2007

"Prosthetic Perception: Turn on, Tune in, Tune Out (and then hit Replay)"   Journal of Evolution and Technology  Feb 1, 2006

"Illegal Possession Of Your Own Brain"   NeoFiles  Feb 1, 2006

"Diagramming Sentences of Value: Evolving Human Rights and the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology"   Terasem Foundation  Jul 20, 2005

"Cognitive Liberty and Converging Technologies for Improving Human Cognition"   Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Science 1013: 221–228  Dec 31, 2004

"Neuroethical Considerations"   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  May 1, 2004

"Brain Fingerprinting: Databodies to Databrains"   Journal of Cognitive Liberties  Jan 1, 2001