"I urge a view that Simon would share: that levels of organization are a deep, non-arbitrary, and extremely important feature of the ontological architecture of our natural world, and almost certainly of any world which could produce, and be inhabited or understood by, intelligent beings. (This gives levels an almost Kantian flavour.) Levels and other modes of organization cannot be taken for granted, but demand characterization and analysis. I f I am right (Wimsatt, 1976a), compositional levels of organization are the simplest general and large scale structures for the organization of matter."

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