# 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]]