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About Informational Ontology

Informational Ontology (IO) is a scope-disciplined structural framework describing how increasingly rich kinds of organization can arise without assuming meaning, minds, goals, or teleology as primitives.

The core ladder is: Difference → Relation → Information → Awareness → Value → Meaning → Purpose (Δ → R → I → A → V → M → P). IO does not claim these regimes are universally instantiated; it characterizes the forms they cannot fail to take when the stated structural conditions obtain.

What this site is

A public interface to the canonical Master text and the full paper corpus (PDF).
A layered reading experience: fast intuition, guided tour, and canonical documents.

What this site is not

IO is not a physics theory, a cognitive mechanism, a semantic theory of truth/representation, or a moral prescription. “Awareness”, “meaning”, and “purpose” are used as names for structural regimes, not as folk-psychological imports.

How to read

If you want the authoritative statement: read the Master (PDF or web reader).
If you want a gentle introduction: use Start Here and the guided path (/start).
If you want details of specific transitions: use the Papers page and the relevant derivative paper.

License

Contact: info@informationontology.org