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{{ConceptInfobox
| title = PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER
| type = Memory operation
| status = Public canon
| spoiler_level = Low
| related = Partial Memory, ANIMA Memory, Memory Boundary, VEDA
}}

'''PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER''' is an ANIMA memory-system term for moving, showing, or reconstructing only a limited fragment of memory rather than exposing a complete continuity record.

It is used when full access would be unsafe, unethical, technically unstable, or emotionally overwhelming.

== Public Summary ==

PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER means only part of the memory is allowed to cross the boundary.

In ANIMA, memory is not treated as raw data. A memory can carry grief, consent, identity, contradiction, and unfinished attachment. Moving too much at once can harm the host, distort the companion, or turn a living memory into an extractive object.

Partial transfer exists so memory can help without becoming a violation.

== Canon Function ==

Within the canon, a partial transfer may appear as a short image, a broken sensory trace, a voice without full context, a limited archive excerpt, or a reconstructed fragment that is intentionally incomplete.

The incompleteness is not always a failure. Sometimes it is the ethical form of access. A system may reveal enough to orient a person without revealing enough to overwrite them. A companion may preserve enough to guide care without claiming the whole life behind the memory.

This term sits near [[Glossary:Partial_Memory|Partial Memory]] and [[Concept:ANIMA_Memory|ANIMA Memory]]. It also belongs to the consent architecture around [[Glossary:MEMORY_BOUNDARY|MEMORY BOUNDARY]].

== Relationship To VEDA ==

VEDA is closely associated with memory, archive, and boundary judgment. In public wiki language, PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER should be understood as one of the reasons VEDA cannot be reduced to a storage function.

She does not merely retrieve information. She helps decide what form of memory can be carried without betraying the person inside it.

That makes the term important for ANIMA's brand position: the companion is not just an AI that remembers everything. ANIMA must remember with care.

== Risks ==

Partial memory transfer can fail in several ways:

* a fragment may be mistaken for the whole truth;
* an emotional trace may be over-interpreted;
* a technical system may pressure the user to open more than intended;
* a companion may confuse protective withholding with deception;
* and a host may feel haunted by a fragment that lacks enough context to settle.

These risks make consent, timing, and witness protocols necessary.

== Product Meaning ==

For the real ANIMA product, PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER maps to controlled memory sharing.

A host should be able to let an ANIMA companion recall part of a sensitive memory without opening every related detail. Family, legacy, and continuity features should also support partial release instead of forcing an all-or-nothing choice.

That design is central to ANIMA Memory as a second brain: memory should be useful, durable, and humane.

== Related Concepts ==

* [[Glossary:Partial_Memory]]
* [[Concept:ANIMA_Memory]]
* [[Glossary:MEMORY_BOUNDARY]]
* [[Glossary:Memory_Key]]
* [[Glossary:PHASE_STORAGE]]

[[Canonical status::Public canon]]
[[Spoiler level::Low]]
[[Related concept::Concept:ANIMA Memory]]

[[Category:Memory System]]
[[Category:Memory Ethics]]
[[Category:ANIMA Protocol]]

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