
cognitive
cognitive (kòg´nî-tîv)
adjective
1. Of, characterized by,
involving, or relating to cognition: "Thinking in terms of dualisms is
common in our cognitive culture" (Key Reporter).
2. Having a basis in or
reducible to empirical factual knowledge.
- cog´nitively adverb
dissident
dissident (dîs´î-dent)
adjective
Disagreeing, as in opinion
or belief.
noun
One who disagrees; a dissenter.
[Latin dissidêns, dissident-,
present participle of dissidêre, to disagree : dis-, apart. See dis-
+ sedêre, to sit.]
COGNITIVE DISSIDENTS- The name of a "chill," or bar where
people hang out, in
_Virtual
Light_
by
William
Gibson.
John
Perry Barlow and some other people have taken to calling themselves "cognitive
dissidents," inspired by _Virtual Light_.