# Mental Integrity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Human Rights / Neurotechnology **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established human-rights and bioethics concept ## Definition **Mental Integrity** is the protected interest in freedom from unauthorized or harmful interference with a person's mental processes, cognition, or psychological state. ## Continuity Significance Continuity systems capable of editing, restoring, or throttling cognition would make mental integrity an operational service constraint. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence European human-rights, bioethics, and neurorights frameworks treat mental integrity as a protected interest. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Mental integrity does not itself create a right to indefinite computation. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] · [[wiki/Mental Privacy|Mental Privacy]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Liberty|Cognitive Liberty]] · [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]] · [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]