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Wimsatt, William C. "The Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets." Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality, pp. 233-234.

"Figure 10.2. Complex orderings of levels and perspectives. This figure depicts modes of composition of aggregate and complex systems, ordered in terms of the direction of explanatory relations. (Nodes are levels or perspectives; arrows give direction of explanation.).

... “It is illustrative: I will not argue for its detailed architecture, and it
may be wrong in representing complex physical systems in the biological, psychological, social, and cultural realms. I see no obvious errors, however. The biological organism (a developed language using socialized human) has perspectival structure (actually at its lower levels of biological organization, merging continuously with causal thicket structure as we get into the internalized psychological and social realm). Two ontological lineages emerge from this: those of cultural objects (abstract objects, presumably also viewable as abstract relational properties of objects in the second lineage), and socioecological objects (kinds of complex material systems having the whole range of social, ecological, biological, cultural, and psychological properties).

... “I believe that the connectivity patterns relating these various realms inside and outside the individual are much more complex than represented here. Thus, social institutions obviously are complex hybrids of objects at a variety of levels from both of these lineages. There are causal thickets above and outside the individual interacting rather directly in various ways with causal thickets inside the individual, and an embodied socialized theory of consciousness is required."

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