# Memory Excision Authority **Domain:** Deep Time / Cognitive Rights / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Future constitutional concept ## Definition **Memory Excision Authority** is the legally defined power to remove, suppress, rewrite, or render inaccessible parts of a continuant's memory or learned state. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Control over memory is control over identity and can become a form of punishment, treatment, privacy enforcement, or domination. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Current analogues include data erasure, unlearning, therapeutic memory interventions, and model editing. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis A legitimate regime requires strict authorization, necessity, transparency, audit, and appeal. ## Evidentiary Boundary No present digital-person memory authority exists. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Machine Unlearning as Cognitive Surgery|Machine Unlearning as Cognitive Surgery]] · [[wiki/Right Against Involuntary Cognitive Modification|Right Against Involuntary Cognitive Modification]] · [[wiki/Perceptual Sovereignty|Perceptual Sovereignty]] · [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->