"Ownership Of Thought: Can Neural Data Be "Property"? An Analysis Under The Transfer Of Property Act, 1882

N.K Thridev Prince B.Com., LL.B, St. Joseph’s College of Law ABSTRACT Can your thoughts be considered property? Can it be sold?, bequeathed?, or stolen? These questions have transcended science fiction and entered the domain of live legal inquiry with the advent of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. Elon Musk's Neuralink, a device capable of capturing, decoding, and transmitting the brain's electrical impulses into machine- readable data, thereby converting literal thought into...