The Flusser hierarchy
| 4 | the natural man in the state of concrete spatio-temporal experience. No mind in escape. |
| 3 | the modeler and maker whose hands shape the things and brings them to rest. |
| 2 | the artist imagines the world. Eternal return and circulation on a magical surface. |
| 1 | the author linearizes the flow of things in symbols and historical time. |
| 0 | the programmer computes the it from the bit. |