Levels

In GOL it is assumed that the world is organized into strata, which are again organized into layers. This is based on poli1. Level are strata or layers. There are at least three strata: a material stratum, a mental or psychological stratum and a social stratum. Levels are characterized by the categories they use, and those categories imply a certain granularity, so that granularity is a derived concept.

The mental and the social strata are founded in the material stratum. This basically means that the categories and entities of the mental and the social strata can be reduced to categories of the material stratum, but only with a loss of information, so the reverse is not possible. The relation between the mental and the social stratum is still unclear. Granularity and levels are discussed in section 5.2.11.