[Math] What’s after natural transformations

ct.category-theory

If functors are morphisms between categories, and natural transformations are morphisms between functors, what's a morphism between natural transformations? Is there ever a need for such a notion?

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(Small) categories form what's called a 2-category, which is a structure that has objects, morphisms (functors), and morphisms between morphisms (natural transformations). There are also n-categories, which have a deeper morphisms structure. A google search will point you to a lot of references about n-categories. But for ordinary categories, the story ends at natural transformations.

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