The argument that shifts me the most away from thinking of it with the shoggoth-mask analogy is the implication that a mask has a single coherent actor behind it. But if you can avoid that mental failure mode I think the shoggoth-mask analogy is basically correct.
The argument that shifts me the most away from thinking of it with the shoggoth-mask analogy is the implication that a mask has a single coherent actor behind it. But if you can avoid that mental failure mode I think the shoggoth-mask analogy is basically correct.