In the consciousness developmental paradigm sentience precedes the attainment of selfhood which is a special topological development, or factitious complexification of the space of awareness, caused either by language or by the needs of social modelling, depending on the kind of selfhood involved. Special efforts are required to dissolve or at least reverse the rigidification of this construction. In the soul paradigm selfhood is there from the beginning and developments is the process of learning to use the capabilities of its vehicle of expression which entails a filtering or fibration and reduction of an original unexpressive vastness. The archetype of the child exists only for the latter, the child according to the former is what it is taken to be by utilitarianism.