User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-26322734-20161010032810/@comment-4867780-20161011105305

By composite, I meant each of our roles/relations gradually changes our overall personality over time in many subtle ways, which is then reflected on other roles/relations in a dynamic interactive evolution (our accumulated actions/thoughts durably shape the person we are, and these are heavily influenced by any situational "job" we successively attend to, so these jobs end up influencing us as much as we influence them).

Just my own opinion though. Psychology is hardly an exact science, and identity even less so. It is all way too elusive, complex and fluctuating to be fully understood, at least in the foreseeable future.

As a sentient piece of Prime Undefineness, Lawrence is an independent consciousness and living database, this is what he currently is and what he always was ever since his birth/imprinting as a person. So his nature and identity remained unchanged during all this time. What he did is simply collect options in the form of templates and resources during his travels, and use them to build his ideal home, which expanded later on into his ideal world.

This lack of natural physicality is the exact reason he designed the Selforge Materium, fully bonding conscious Selforge Essence and artificial matter into a hybrid living material, thus physically anchoring his sense of self into unique bodies he may truly consider his own. Materium avatars are thus his "true self" as a person, while Selforge Technology are just engineered subconscious fragments of his soul, allowing him to protect/pamper his many loved ones and share his blissful transcendence with them.

Kinda like Yhwach from Bleach towards the Quincy, if he was a Big Good instead of a Big Bastard ^ ^;

The network uniting citizens is empathic rather than telepathic, allowing them to naturally share, understand and value each other’s feelings and emotions as if they were their own, while informational thoughts remain theirs to share as they see fit. So there are immense benefits in terms of individual and collective fulfillment without any privacy intrusion, though it would most likely be a non-issue anyway seeing how very caring and trusting citizens are.

On the other hand, Seira herself does have access to pretty much every information about everything and everyone, a fact that is honestly acknowledged as a necessary condition to permanently guarantee citizens' optimal happiness on an everyday basis. All personal data are respectfully confidential, and Seira is a paragon of selfless benevolence with extremely good results and popularity, so everyone is at peace with this fair transparency and simply consider it their indirect contribution to their own happiness, which is exactly how things are.