I think this author’s model is a very useful intuition pump, and agree that it illuminates a lot more than the anthropomorphic view of individuality that many alignment thinkers default to. For a similar-but-not-identical alternative intuition pump, which produces similar-but-not-identical analyses of alignment, see my post from last year Goodbye, Shoggoth: The Stage, its Animatronics, & the Puppeteer – a New Metaphor.
I think this author’s model is a very useful intuition pump, and agree that it illuminates a lot more than the anthropomorphic view of individuality that many alignment thinkers default to. For a similar-but-not-identical alternative intuition pump, which produces similar-but-not-identical analyses of alignment, see my post from last year Goodbye, Shoggoth: The Stage, its Animatronics, & the Puppeteer – a New Metaphor.