Abstract

In the twenty‐first century, a number of wide‐ranging ethical, legal, and social outcomes from current and emerging scientific research do now, and increasingly will, bear relevance on freedom of thought.1 Paired with exponential advances in digital computing and communication capabilities, the ways in which we refer to, or think about, “human” thinking and, specifically, how we think, will evolve in ways that previous generations, across millennia, have not needed to ponder.