Informational Ontology: A Structural Framework for Organizational Regimes

This work presents the Informational Ontology as a structural framework describing a sequence of organizational regimes: Difference, Relation, Information, Awareness, Value, Meaning, and Purpose (Δ → R → I → A → V → M → P). The framework specifies structural constraints that become unavoidable under explicit conditions: differentiation, ordering, and selection under perturbation. The ontology is structural rather than empirical. It does not propose physical models, cognitive mechanisms, or normative prescriptions. It articulates the conditions under which systems capable of registration, differential constraint, coherent organization, and self-influencing trajectories can arise, without assuming any particular implementation. This document constitutes the Revision 5i of the Informational Ontology framework and serves as the foundational reference for a broader corpus of papers analyzing governance, failure modes, and regime transitions.