# Neurorights **Domain:** Neuroethics / Human Rights **Doc Type:** Governance Concept Node **Maturity:** Emerging Normative Framework **Related:** [[Mental Privacy]], [[Cognitive Liberty]], [[Psychological Continuity]], [[Neural Data Sovereignty]] --- ## Definition **Neurorights** are proposed or emerging rights and safeguards addressing access to, inference from, and intervention in brain activity and mental processes. Recurring concerns include mental privacy, cognitive liberty, personal identity, psychological continuity, mental integrity, autonomy, fairness, and protection from manipulation or discrimination. ## Governance boundary “Neurorights” is not one universally codified legal package. Specific protections differ across constitutions, statutes, recommendations, standards, and scholarly proposals. The [[wiki/UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology|UNESCO Recommendation]] is an international normative instrument, not a self-executing global criminal code. ## Digital Afterlife Interface **Evidence / Concept Status:** Emerging constitutional, legislative, and intergovernmental field. Neurorights govern the source substrate from which future continuity data may be acquired and help define limits on unauthorized read/write access. Chile supplies constitutional and judicial neuroprotection; [[wiki/Council of Europe Resolution 2344|Council of Europe Resolution 2344]] and Spanish policy materials identify related rights. No general neurorights regime currently creates postmortem computational continuity or a positive duty to provide it. See [[wiki/Chile Neurorights and Psychological Continuity|Chile Neurorights and Psychological Continuity]], [[wiki/Spain Digital Rights Charter and Psychological Continuity|Spain Digital Rights Charter and Psychological Continuity]], and [[wiki/Negative-to-Positive Continuity Gap|Negative-to-Positive Continuity Gap]].