Horcruxology: Distributed identities and postmortem life

When Tywin Lannister explains to Arya Stark what legacy means, namely that which remains of you after you are dead, it suggests a notion of post-mortem life. When we gather and remember someone who passed away or when we sense the presence of past lives in haunted places, it suggests that something, whatever it is, lives on. The same idea is present in the current debate on climate change. What do we leave behind in the rocks for future generations to find? In order to answer that, we need to ask: What does it take for something to live on? How can objects receive the distributed identities of others and store them even after the donor itself has passed? This project is an investigation into this very question.