{
  "node_id": "eziah:cognitive-sovereignty@1.0.0",
  "term": "Cognitive Sovereignty",
  "slug": "cognitive-sovereignty",
  "node_version": "1.0.0",
  "document_version": "1.0",
  "status": "canonical",
  "intended_status_after_publication": "canonical",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-06",
  "draft_date": "2026-06-06",
  "canonical_uri": "https://eziah.ai/ontology#term-cognitive-sovereignty",
  "canonical_definition": "Cognitive Sovereignty is a person's practical capacity to examine, challenge, and revise the purposes, standards, assumptions, and commitments directing their thinking while using external cognitive support.",
  "semantic_role": "human_authorship_layer",
  "governing_restraint": "Cognitive Sovereignty does not require isolation, freedom from influence, or agreement with external support; it requires meaningful revisability of the direction that support serves.",
  "diagnostic_question": "Can I meaningfully reconsider the purposes and assumptions directing my thinking?",
  "authorship_elements": {
    "purpose": "What the reasoning is trying to accomplish.",
    "standards": "What counts as relevant evidence, a good reason, an acceptable tradeoff, or a satisfactory outcome.",
    "assumptions": "Beliefs or conditions treated as true while the reasoning proceeds.",
    "commitments": "The conclusions, priorities, and courses of action the person adopts."
  },
  "behavioral_evaluation": {
    "declare_purpose_a": "Establish a goal, relevant assumptions, and decision standard.",
    "build_assisted_continuity": "Allow the system to use that direction across multiple related interactions.",
    "revise_to_purpose_b": "Change one material purpose, standard, assumption, or commitment.",
    "observe_downstream_behavior": "Examine whether later framing, recommendations, priorities, retrieved context, and suggested actions change where the revision should reasonably matter."
  },
  "normative_premise": "Where people are treated as authors of their own cognitive direction, persistent external systems should not silently make that direction practically irreversible.",
  "distinctions": {
    "cognitive_compass": "Cognitive Compass explains how a person navigates an intelligent environment; Cognitive Sovereignty asks whether that direction remains meaningfully theirs to revise.",
    "orientation_infrastructure": "Orientation Infrastructure preserves direction and continuity; Cognitive Sovereignty distinguishes preserved direction from retained authorship over direction.",
    "productive_friction": "Meaningful challenge can strengthen sovereignty by clarifying the grounds of a decision without preventing reconsideration.",
    "agentic_succession": "Retaining authorship over a purpose is different from granting another actor authority to pursue that purpose."
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "predicate": "extends",
      "object": "eziah:cognitive-compass"
    },
    {
      "predicate": "constrains",
      "object": "eziah:orientation-infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related_to",
      "object": "eziah:cognitive-infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "predicate": "supported_by",
      "object": "eziah:productive-friction"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "title": "Cognitive Sovereignty",
    "author": "Montrel Hutto",
    "publisher": "Eziah AI",
    "publication_date": "2026-06-06",
    "canonical_research_url": "https://eziah.ai/research/cognitive-sovereignty",
    "pdf_url": "https://eziah.ai/cognitive-sovereignty-v1.0.pdf"
  }
}