The Chain of Being.

This post will only vaguely point toward the antique medieval idea of the Chain of Being.

The child  much later, later than childhood, thought about it all quite a bit- and noted a sister notion shed of the antiquity, called the Hierarchy of Being, or the Hierarchy of Reality- (which will also only be pointed to in a slight way here).

I have not be able to reach a firm decision about this set of ideas- I once regarded hierarchy as a fiction. Now I think I was wrong. So, I tend rather to view everything as one thing, or two things... with everything else just being a kind of varied description of these two things based on an animation- of that which is fundamental- the one of these two things animated- the other, utterly inert.

All the other things we know, I thought of as sort of imagined- as in a dream. I thought of consciousness as a dream. But now I think hierarchy may be ontologically real.

Kalinzskii