Neurorights: legal relevance and regulation through comparative law

Abstract

Neurotechnology has advanced to such an extent that it is now possible to know people’s thoughts and even interfere in their cognitive processes and behavior. This raises a series of questions related to ethics and the philosophy of Law within the framework of human rights. It is in this context where neuro-rights are born, whose proposal aims to respond to the emerging need to grant legal protection to the subconscious of the human mind. This article explores these ethical and philosophical issues in depth, studies the different current proposals of neuro-rights and offers an analysis of their regulation through comparative law, in order to draw conclusions about their legal relevance.