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Table 1. The social groups on ontological level 5 consist of people (level 4). People are composed of cells (level 3), which in turn are composed of molecules (level 2), which in turn are composed of atoms and elementary particles (level 1). Each ontological level has a corresponding epistemological level consisting of concepts, generalizations, explanations, and theories about its objects.
Figure 1. Personal level: A description of the phenomenon to be explained. Psychological level: The phenomenon is decomposed into its interacting constituent psychological processes, and this mechanism explains how the phenomenon is generated. Neuroscientific level: Neuroscientific explanations of psychological processes show how the phenomena are decomposed into, and thereby generated by, interactions between neuroscientific processes.
