Is the Right to Freedom of Thought in Need of an Update?
from Part VI - The Right to Freedom of Thought in Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2025
The rapid development in neurotechnology raises significant human rights concerns. A normative analysis of this emerging technology’s ability to interfere with individual’s mental processes, highlights the lack of a clear human rights framework protecting the human mind. In this chapter, we will outline the interplay between neurotechnology and the right to freedom of thought, as well as the plea for new neurorights. First, we will examine how neurotechnology interferes with people’s mental sphere, and how this may put human rights – and the right to freedom of thought in particular – at risk. Second, we analyse how the international community addresses the disruptive impact of neurotechnology and which role the freedom of thought is attributed in these efforts. Third, we explore the impact on this freedom, its capacity to address the challenges emanating from neurotechnology, and how it may be reconceptualised to serve as an effective safeguard. Finally, we offer general remarks on the necessity of new neurorights and explore the current positions of various international and supranational institutions on this issue.
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