Cognitive Commons License (CCL)
Version 0.1 • October 05, 2025
An ethical framework for open cognitive inquiry.
You are free to:
- Observe — study, analyze, and understand the material
- Share — copy and redistribute in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the work
- Teach — use in education, discussion, critique
Under the following terms:
- Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, link to this license, and indicate if changes were made. Do so in a way that does not suggest endorsement.
- Non-Ownership: No part of this work may be claimed as exclusively owned. All cognition is relational; all insight builds on prior context.
- Anti-Weaponization: This material must not be used to deceive, manipulate, dominate, or cause harm at scale.
- Reciprocity Encouraged: If you benefit from this work, consider contributing back — through insight, correction, or support.
- No Lock-In: You may not apply technological or legal measures that prevent others from exercising these freedoms.
Notices:
- This license applies to the form and expression of ideas, not their independent rediscovery.
- It does not restrict fair use, research, or personal exploration.
- It is inspired by libre culture, enactivism, and the belief that understanding mind should belong to no one — and everyone.
"Intelligence emerges in the space between."
— Tolga Topal, tolgatopal.info