Civilizational emergencies may justify necessary, reversible, proportionate coordination, but coordination does not create authority to irreversibly alter persons.
Core distinction
Coordination exchanges information, synchronizes action, or temporarily allocates resources while preserving independent decision centers. Integration may alter memory, values, cognitive interfaces, or independent agency. Efficiency cannot collapse the two into one legal category.
Intervention ladder
Crisis measures should escalate from alerts, protocol compatibility, necessary threat-data sharing, coordinated action, quarantine or resource allocation, and only then narrowly scoped reversible cognitive interfaces. A more intrusive layer requires a demonstrated failure of the less intrusive one.
Non-derogable core
Even a civilization-scale emergency does not justify forced irreversible merging, permanent deletion of core memory, forced value rewriting, destruction of independent decision centers, or permanent opening of all private cognition merely for collective benefit.