“The logic of combination is a powerful transformation engine for entities at a particular hierarchical level, but it does not account for the transformations that construct new levels.”

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Do new levels need to be constructed? <span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 0.875rem;">In human thinking, we stop certain-levels: </span><span style="background-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Transcendence/"I Don't Know." Or we just link to a new but releated </span>hierarchy<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">. </span></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For example: <span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 0.875rem;"> letters – words – phrases – sentences – paragraphs – texts. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 0.875rem;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">To move that </span>hierarchy<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> further might be dangerous, it might be wiser for a new level not to emerge, but for the system to connect it to a </span>separate<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span>hierarchy<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> of say place: a bookstore, a </span>library<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">, a website that hosts articles, etc. Is it so much about </span>constructing<span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> new levels? Or is it about reaching the end of a line and then connecting it with a new one.  </span></span></div>

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