Quadrants apply only to living beings?

I'm listening to Ken Wilber and Allan Combs, "Consciousness Explained Better," and just heard them say that quadrants refer only to living, conscious beings.

I had no idea. All this time, I was imagining quadrants applying to inanimate objects.

I thought of a computer as having an interior and exterior, a singular and plural.

The inside is what it's made of, all the elements, all the wires, the intelligence that went in to creating the inner workings of a computer. The inside is its functioning capabilities.

The outside singular is what it can do and does, what it looks like to us on the outside, how the inner workings of the computer are invisible to us. We just type and point and click, and all kinds of magic takes place in the inside. We just see the results.

The lower left would be the relationship it has with us humans.

Lower right would be the whole technological web of information being shared and utilized around the world.

All of this could be applied to flowers and mountains and light poles, too. Of course, the conscious part of the relationship would be on the human side, but that doesn't mean that the computer and flowers, etc., don't have an inside and outside for us to relate to. And singular and plural, as well.

It's funny, when I learned about the four quadrants, I always assumed they applied to everything, and that's how I thought of them. So when they said inanimate objects don't have quadrants, it just surprised me.

Roshana