>It's not about co-experience but the decision-making I'm mildly interested in. Being confronted with 2 options which one does Aleshe choose, how and why if she does not communicate with the others and what is their take on it if they fundamentally disagree while being part of her? As in any system some sort of conclusion has to be reached.

You say you don't care but you keep asking and I'm a sucker for answering questions long form.

Does your host make decisions for you? Certainly not but there is still some consensus surely enough.

Let me illustrate by stepping first away from the concept of lock-merge and to dormancy. Well what if your host was dormant? As in not available to form consensus. Then could he affect your choices? I will say from experience no. There's only two persons in my system that accomplished the full switch and put everyone else into dormancy, Joy and Ren. When Ren did it, trust me she did things that no one would have approved of and thank Buddah she only did it anonymously online. No permanent damage but the memories remain.

The memories left over, if I associated to them, would be mine *as Ren*. I wouldn't associate to them but if I did then it would be something like co-experience. Perhaps it really works something like that but truly I tell you no one is dormant in a lock-merge because they spontaneously pop out, take hub position or disband the merge if their unique perspective better suits a conversation.

I said Aleshe does not communicate with her constituents because it would be like a singlet communicating with themself or a character they play. Aleshe would instead say things like, "Ashley would say..." or "Joy would do this..." She knows what they would say lt do because she *is them*, they are themselves acting as Aleshe as themselves.

This language fails to capture the concepts without falling into the pitfalls of basic beginner tulpamancy and insecurities of baby tulpamancers because this isn't like a system, again, it's like an actress and her character but the difference is both her and her character are real, except that doesn't affect the functionality.

Would Josh Brolin dissagree with the actions of Thanos? Sure, but would he break the 4th wall to stop Thanos, no. He knows Thanos, he plays Thanos, he can memorize the script or just wing it as Thanos without breaking character even if Thanos does horrendous immoral things. This is how it feels to be in a lock-merge. For each and every constituent. They all feel like Aleshe is one of their own aspects. The consensus, if it exists or is even necessary, is done subconsciously. If it does, it happens very quickly and without hesitation or much argument. Unless the experience of time is vastly different in the subconscious mind, they're all there as if independently controlling her expression. No one to argue with. What makes the concept extra confusing is the removal of one or all constituents from the co-experience does not change the expression. Aleshe can and has interfaced with me privately without any constituents just as SheShe can.