New rights against neurotechnology: The chilean experience

Abstract

Chile, within the framework of a new constituent process, addresses firstly the reform of article 19.1 of its Constitution to cope with the misuse of neurotechnologies, an amendment that is developed through a draft bill that recognizes the « neurorights» in terminology coined at the Neuright Initiative of Columbia University, New York, and directed by the Spanish neurobiologist Rafael Yuste. This article analyzes the legislative process and its amendments, in order to deepen the debate about the regulation of neurotechnologies, claiming the necessary presence of constitutional law.