How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"You talk about occlusions! I couldn't get past the 'Baby is three' thing because in it lay the clues to what I really am. I couldn't find that out because I was afraid to remember that I was two things—Miss Kew's little boy, and something a hell of a lot bigger. I couldn't be both, and I wouldn't release either one."
He said, with his eyes on his pipe, "Now you can?"
"I have." (2.14.12-14)
Sometimes you have to pick who you want to be. Gerry picks his identity as the head of the gestalt over his identity as Miss Kew's child, which is probably the better choice of the two.
Quote #8
Who am I to make positive conclusions about morality, and codes to serve all of humanity?
Why—I am the son of a doctor, a man who chose to serve mankind, and who was positive that this was right. And he tried to make me serve in the same way, because it was the only rightness he was sure of. And for this I have hated him all my life . . . I see now, Dad, I see! (3.16-54-55)
By coming to terms with what he thinks of as his father's forceful instruction, Hip finds enough of a sense of self confidence to devise an ethos for the gestalt.
Quote #9
But yes, yes . . . multiplicity is our first characteristic; unity our second. As your parts know they are parts of you, so must you know that we are parts of humanity. [...] We are humanity! (3.21.20-24)
It's not every day that you end up in telepathic communication with humanity. But when Gerry does, Homo Gestalt tells him its identity: one that prioritizes multiplicity or diversity over unity, but still considers both important. Yet they all join into one life form, identified here as humanity.