> at most, living society should be able to inspect & affect the post-living system (afterlife), but the post living system should be airgapped from being able

> at most, living society should be able to inspect & affect the post-living system (afterlife), but the post living system should be airgapped from being able to (at least, directly) affect the living one at all. I feel like this hypothetical scenario is contradictory (and, supposing there was engineering behind both this life and an afterlife, is an argument for keeping the two isolated). Data is code, so data collected from the afterlife is potential for "remote execution from the afterlife" (not that humans are computers, but for example traditionalists who were able to directly study the long-dead would act differently than if they had to piece tradition together from scraps of documents - particularly, it would freeze traditions/memes rather than letting them evolve) and therefore death losing its role as the cessation of influence.