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I'm neutral on this CR, so don't worry about my vote counting against it. However I still do disagree with your interpretation there.

My reasoning is that regardless of what each layer sees each other as, as you say in the OP, when Roland is talking about leaves withering and dying he says it represents infinite universes within the leaf decaying. Now in my mind, if I had the only remaining Stephen King book in the world and I burned it, it wouldn't destroy anything other than the book. As in, it doesn't destroy Stephen King's fictional universe, because that doesn't exist in the first place.

But, when Roland says a withering leaf represents the actual material decay of a universe, that implies to me that the universes within these atoms really do exist in some quantifiable way relative to the outside universe. I believe that to be true in spite of whatever the characters in King's novels say about considering higher universes fundamentally inaccessible, or as unreal mirages.

Also from reading the books (now this was probably just bad reading comprehension on my part) but when Roland and Walter went off about there being universes inside of the grains of sand I interpreted that as them just bs-ing, or Walter/Randall going off about his usual nonsense.
walter and Roland actually have nothing to do with this r>f thing. Mostly r>f contexts come from the book insomnia. So it's your own idea but let me explain anyway: when something exhibits qualitative superiority, the things above it give qualitative superiority to that qualitatively superior thing, they see it as reducible. The leaf interpretation here actually involves qualitative collection. It can be counted, but it can only be counted according to that character, anyway, after 1-A, if tiers such as High 1-A etc. cannot see it as reducible, it will not be High 1-A. So the grass leaf that contains the qualitative collection of the infinite 1-A structure must already see 1-A as countable or it is not 1-A+. Thank you for letting me know your opinion, I hope I was able to explain it.
 
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