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Approach to the Inquiry

The Root Hierarchy-RH is far more significant. From a practical standpoint, I take the naming of these levels/entities as a given. I focus on clarifying functions that underpin such names, and determining distinctive properties.

Will is expressed in endeavour. Correspondingly, the Root Cell emanates the Root Hierarchy-RH. The posting commences with a brief comment about Will-R. As it is bordering on the hypothetical, there seems little to be said.

A justification for choice of these levels will not be offered here—but the explanation with diagrams is provided in the Architecture Room.

Unlike some other taxonomic hierarchies where differences are subtle, it is rather obvious that the Levels of Endeavour are very different. No-one is going to mistake «experiences-RL4» for «purposes-RL6» or «communications-RL5» for «actions-RL1». What will be contentious are the formulations of functions.

Fix Your Frame of Reference

Confusion can easily occur if you rapidly alter your frame of reference as you think about entities or argue a case. When that happens: anything in the psychosocial world can be turned into anything else. An action becomes a communication which becomes an experience &c.

Shifting our frame of reference is a natural tendency. Such shifts are intrinsic to our unconscious use of THEE. However, shifts interfere with the painstaking work of discovery, analysis and clarification.

Properties Considered

1. External/public manifestation of each entity-level.
2. Benefits sought by each entity-level.
3. Reasons for engaging with each entity-level.
4. Reasons for a refusal to activate each entity-level.
5. Difficulties in using each entity-level in everyday life.
6. What psychosocial need leads to moving down the hierarchy.
7. What psychosocial need leads to moving up the hierarchy.
8. How each entity-level enables endeavours to be created and pursued.
9. Name the poles of the duality formed by even and odd entity-levels.
10. Self-destructiveness using the entity-level.
11. Force for good associated with the entity-level.
12. Force for harm associated with absence of the entity-level when required.
13. Perverse use of the Will in relation to each entity-level.

Development of the Root Complex

Commencing 2011, I have posted additional parts of the Root Complex, starting with an examination of the Will (Root Cell) and properties of entity-levels within Endeavour (Root Hierarchy).

Within this Satellite, I cover endeavour as a whole:

• Root Hierarchy Tree: Handling my endeavour. Posted Aug-2011.
• Root Structural Hierarchy: Creativity at work. Posted Feb-2012.
• Root Structural Hierarchy Tree: Being creative. Posted Mar-2012.

Within the Your Better Self Satellite, I cover awarenesses to guide endeavours generally:

• Root Typology: Primal Quests. Posted May-2012.
• Root Typology Tree: Planes of «Good and Evil». Posted Sep-2012.
• Root Tertiary Hierarchy: Primal injunctions. Posted Nov-2012.
• Root Tertiary Hierarchy Tree: Improving communal living. Posted Jan-2013.
• Root Structural Tertiary Hierarchy: Producing goodness. Posted Mar-2013.
• Root Structural Tertiary Hierarchy Tree: Bringing goodness to life. Posted Jul-2013.

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Originally posted: 27-Jan-2011; Last updated 29-Feb-2014.