The discovery of iconic dimensional conformations raises many interesting questions. Are the conformational effects of iconic dimensions on superiors equal in degree to their effects on subordinates? What are the mathematical functions that link “amounts” of conformational dimensions to their effects? How do the conformation effects combine when there are repeated with the same dimension? What are the felicity conditions, under which the iconic dimensional conformations actually do conform authority ranking? When a pyramid brilliantly reflects sunlight, or an enormous bell peals, when and how are their percepts linked to an emperor who commanded them, rather than, say, the engineers or the workers who built them? Does sensitivity to the conformational effects of all ten dimensions emerge simultaneously in ontogeny? Why are these ten dimensions prevalent in conformations of authority ranking, but other dimensions, such as distance, apparently are not often used?

This chapter discusses being in front of others, processing in first position, and having temporal precedence to conform authority ranking, as in military protocol; number of statues at a temple, number of heads or arms on a statue, number of names of a deity, and plural pronouns, and numerosity also conform authority ranking. Ancient rulers associated themselves with statues of the largest and most powerful animals, or with actual elephants and lions, conforming authority ranking by force and mass. The chapter’s conclusion recounts the author’s discovery of the analog magnitude system (AMS), which is the neurocognitive substrate for all eight of the dimensions and magnitudes whose conformational uses w have considered so far. The AMS is also the substrate for processing relative luminosity and relative loudness, so I realized I should find out whether luminosity and/or loudness often conforms authority ranking.