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

'''Partial Memory''' is an ANIMA memory term for an incomplete, limited, or intentionally bounded memory fragment.

It is not automatically a broken memory. Sometimes partial memory is the safest form a memory can take.

== Public Summary ==

Partial Memory means a memory is present, but not whole.

In ANIMA, a memory can appear as a short image, a voice without full context, a sensory trace, a symbolic clue, a damaged archive piece, or a deliberately limited recall. This matters because the story treats memory as something more than stored data. Memory can carry grief, consent, identity, danger, and unfinished attachment.

A partial memory can guide someone without forcing them to inherit everything behind it.

== Canon Function ==

Within canon, Partial Memory helps explain why VEDA and the memory system often avoid total exposure. Complete memory may be too dangerous, too coercive, or too emotionally heavy. A fragment can be enough to create doubt, restore orientation, or preserve a boundary.

The term sits beside [[Glossary:PARTIAL_MEMORY_TRANSFER|PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER]], [[Glossary:MEMORY_BOUNDARY|MEMORY BOUNDARY]], and [[Concept:ANIMA_Memory|ANIMA Memory]].

== Difference From Partial Memory Transfer ==

Partial Memory is the state or object: the incomplete memory itself.

[[Glossary:PARTIAL_MEMORY_TRANSFER|PARTIAL MEMORY TRANSFER]] is the process that moves, reveals, or reconstructs a limited part of memory across a boundary.

The distinction is useful for product design. A host may own a partial memory, while the system still needs separate consent before transferring it, showing it to another companion, or using it for digital continuity.

== Relationship To ANIMA Memory ==

ANIMA Memory should not confuse incompleteness with uselessness.

People often remember in fragments. A smell, phrase, habit, ritual, or small scene may hold more emotional truth than a full transcript. ANIMA's memory layer must preserve that nuance without overclaiming certainty.

Partial Memory is therefore a principle of humility. The companion can say: this is what I remember, and this is what I do not know.

== Product Meaning ==

For the real ANIMA product, Partial Memory should inform how memory confidence is shown to the host.

Useful patterns include:

* labels for incomplete memory;
* host confirmation before the memory becomes canonical;
* separation between factual recall and emotional inference;
* easy correction when a fragment is wrong;
* and sensitivity controls for fragments tied to grief or identity.

ANIMA becomes more trustworthy when it admits the limits of what it remembers.

== Related Concepts ==

* [[Glossary:PARTIAL_MEMORY_TRANSFER]]
* [[Glossary:MEMORY_BOUNDARY]]
* [[Glossary:Memory_Key]]
* [[Character:VEDA]]
* [[Concept:ANIMA_Memory]]

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

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

Glossary:Partial Memory - Revision history

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