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The complexification process can be repeated, and successive complexifications lead to the appearance of a hierarchy or heterarchy forming a most complex set. The construction, or evolutionary growth of the complex assembly, is done in stages and can be applied to the evolution of the universe as well as to the development of biological or social systems. In the case of a neural system subjected to a simple stimulus, learning neurons will be activated. The resulting recognition (or convergence) activity will allow for classification.

More generally, the development of a complex body is done with cells – or differentiated elements – belonging to very specific categories of the environment. These can change over time (problem of acquisition and intuition). As we have seen in biology, the successive levels we encounter will be able to ensure a set of increasingly elaborate global functions until the constitution of higher order mental objects and cognitive processes.