# Right Against Involuntary Cognitive Modification **Domain:** Deep Time / Rights / Cognitive Liberty **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Future constitutional right ## Definition The **Right Against Involuntary Cognitive Modification** protects a rights-bearing digital subject against forced changes to memory, values, personality, cognition, or internal state except under narrowly justified lawful conditions. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Digital embodiment makes root-level write access equivalent to an unprecedented form of power over mind. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Mental integrity, cognitive liberty, medical consent, and due process provide analogues. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Unlearning, safety steering, restoration, and punishment may all implicate the right. ## Evidentiary Boundary The right is normative and depends on recognition of a rights-bearing subject. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Mental Integrity|Mental Integrity]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Liberty|Cognitive Liberty]] · [[wiki/Memory Excision Authority|Memory Excision Authority]] · [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->