Glossary:Living Consent

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Type	Consent / contract principle
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Living Consent is an ANIMA principle that consent should remain active, reviewable, revisable, and responsive to the host's changing life.

This page is spoiler-managed. It explains the public concept without revealing specific contract events from the novels.

Public Summary

Living Consent means permission is alive.

In ANIMA, consent is not a dead form signed once and forgotten. It changes with memory, trust, grief, time, relationship depth, and the host's own understanding of what they want preserved.

This principle is central to ANIMA because the brand is built around long-term memory and digital continuity.

Canon Function

Living Consent belongs to ANIMA's consent architecture alongside Living Consent Form, Consent History, and Temporal Consent Ledger.

It explains why a memory-first companion must keep asking, listening, and adapting.

Relationship To Living Consent Form

Living Consent Form is the interface expression of Living Consent. The principle says consent changes. The form gives the host a place to change it.

Together, they prevent long-term memory from becoming a static capture of the host.

Relationship To ANIMA Memory

ANIMA Memory cannot be ethical without Living Consent. The deeper ANIMA remembers, the more important it becomes to let the host revise what should be remembered, hidden, corrected, or released.

Living Consent protects:

daily memory;
sensitive emotional memory;
family and heir access;
legacy instructions;
digital continuity permissions.

Product Meaning

For the real ANIMA product, Living Consent should be one of the core differentiators from ordinary AI companion apps. ANIMA should not only remember the host. It should remember under a consent model that grows with the host.

This is how ANIMA can be intimate without becoming possessive.

Spoiler Boundary

This page does not discuss specific novel cases of living consent. It establishes the public concept for wiki indexing and future expansion.