HIERARCHY OF THE SENTIENT BEING

– Sense: change state in reaction to changes in information state.

– Movement: physical change in state in reaction to change information state. (automatic)

– Perception: changes in state by sensations (memory and anticipation)

– Sentience: identity : positive/negative rewards/punishments in reaction to changes in anticipated state of the organism (automatic)

– Consciousness: perception of changes in state and expected state of memory (automatic)

– Apperception: scaling (organizing) an idea into a body of knowledge.(automatic)

– Cognition: (wayfinding) (automatic)

– Reason: (intentional)(comparison and judgememt) is a faculty of our minds. It consists of a very small set of operations.

– Philosophy: (intentional) recursively re-organizing: commensurability

Rational Instrumentation

– Identity

– Rationalism: non-contradiction

– Logic: set comparison

– Algorithm: process comparison

– Model: equilibrial process comparison.

Physical Instrumentation

– counting

– measurement

– change

– magnification (scale)

– time

Relational Instrumentation

– numbers (identity)

– arithmetic (operations)

– mathematics (sets)

– geometry (space)

– calculus (relations)

– statistics (scales)

– post-euclidian (logical)

Cooperative Instrumentation

– voluntary exchange

– narrative, parable, argument, proof

– numbers, mathematics, accounting

– economics