Synergetic Hierarchy

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Joseph Needham's 'above and below' and his 'higher and lower' are linear. 'Out' expressly is the containing and the contained: in synergetics, the omniembracing and permeating.

Needham's 'space' is our conceptuality independent of size, i.e., of time.

{RBF had underlined:

Needham: "It is much to be wished that words more suitable than 'above or below' or 'higher and lower' could be found to indicate the levels of the spatial hierarchy..."