The chain of being is an abstract paradigm that sets basic orientations in experience. The ancient and medieval version ran vertically down from a high transcendence to mere matter and possibly even further. The naturalistic version is essentially a cybernetic construction bootstrapping from the bottom up. The phenomenological chain is the closest to experiencing as it happens and runs from inside to out, or it would only that the distinction between in and out is already downstream. It is directed in a further and nameless dimension and runs through the very centre of the soul and all knowing.