Thanks!

I'm working on the next version of the draft as we speak. A colleague of mine has translated the paper into German and is providing some good feedback, and a philosopher/mathematician friend has done so as well.

A little more flesh on the bones is forthcoming in the form of a series of sketches on how various lower ontologies for more easily circumscribed domains might be linked into the "master plan" represented by this first paper.

The domains for which I've already started "stubs" in my digital notebook are: ergosemiotic treatments of thermodynamics, cosmology and sensor networks; biosemiotic treatments of cell biology, human biology, theoretical ecology and bioinformatics; noosemiotic treatments of human individuals, medicine, human geography, environmental impact, project management, IS configuration management, human language, artificial societies, economic theory, game theory, religious & secular doctrine, Taoism, social change, law and historiography.

Anybody who feels like taking on one of these domains is welcome to it. :)

Also, I'm working on an ontological "layer" that can live approximately between these upper ontologies and lower domain ontologies. It has to do with how any of these ontologies might be *used*: for the modelling, design and/or management of complex systems.

Finally, I'm trying to tie in some of my experience with software-aided visualization techniques to help flesh out how I think we should be looking for Patterns at all levels of abstraction.