Richard, I wonder if the whole hierarchical thing happened because homeo sapiens stood up on two legs! Then the tendency to think of development as being ONLY a vertical process took over. I now tend to think of human development as a multi directional process, thinking of the brain as maybe having the potential to develop in all directions.
On Sunday, May 4, 2014 10:24 AM, Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: On 5/4/2014 6:22 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: But by that very preferring, you raise the state of no hierarchy to the top of the heap of states! > >For *me*, Share. I didn't try to sell it to you. > It's kind of difficult to write computer code without using a hierarchy. Go figure. The first coding course I took was 'Structuring Programming Languages' at my local community college. At first, I thought I wouldn't like it much, because I was not very fond of diagramming sentences in elementary school. But, it made so much sense, that I enrolled for MS Visual Basic in the next semester. Subsequently I completed a course in Oracle, Database Management w/MS Access, and Programming in SQL with Macromedia Cold Fusion 6. According to my Professor, a programmer should graduate knowing at least three computer programming languages. So, not believing in a hierarchy is thus absurd. It doesn't even make any sense in the practical world. We observe hierarchy almost everywhere in nature, beginning with gravity sucks. Go figure. ________________________________ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.