Whatever approach to alignment we wind up using, it should be scale free and not specific to human-scale systems. Because we need to test it on systems smaller than human-scale and need to scale it up past human-scale systems.
As a being looking out at the world, exactly how is it that you come to understand when you are part of something greater than yourself? What are the series of steps needed to identify yourself, candidates for larger wholes that you might be part of, and model what’s likely?