Nearly everyone I interact with on the internet is operating on at least one or two lower levels of mental integration than I am. I operate on the paradigmatic level and sometimes on the zeitgeist ethic level. Here are the mental integration levels from the bottom up:

zeitgeist/ethic of the age: the idea that appears to be true from all of the levels below it

wisdom-integration-paradigm perception: the integration of only true data and ideas from opposing perspectives

philosophy: the attempt to formulate ideas that are true

theoretics: the attempt to rationally formulate truth

science-data gathering: the accumulation of information that is hopefully true