Scientific Ontology (SO) / 存在境界論: Public Edition v4.0.0

Scientific Ontology (SO) / 存在境界論: Public Edition v4.0.0 is a public documentation release of a boundary-based conceptual framework for describing existence, knowledge, meaning, communication, ethics, AI usefulness, social systems, and research-facing theoretical notes through history, boundary, operational correspondence, collation, residual retention, residue formation, intrinsic time, and the logical-depth axis. This release consolidates the public Japanese name of the project as 存在境界論 while retaining Scientific Ontology as the English project name. It reorganizes the repository as an English-accessible public entrance while preserving Japanese as the primary conceptual reference where meanings diverge. v4.0.0 compactifies the root README, standardizes first-level and Research Notes subdirectory README files, improves directory navigation, updates publication and commensuration policy, clarifies terminology-collision management, adds a Visual Materials layer and conceptual posters, and strengthens the distinction between core public concepts, applications, visual materials, and higher-claim Research Notes. Major additions and reorganizations include paired Japanese and English physical/cosmological Research Notes, expanded social-boundary and Negentropy Economy Research Notes, a claim-strength table for History-Field Topology, standardized README navigation, and improved local-link hygiene. A central clarification in this release concerns the relation between Scientific Ontology and existing sciences. This public edition does not present itself as a replacement for empirical physics, economics, sociology, policy science, AI research, or existing philosophical traditions. Contemporary sciences generally proceed from high-entropy observational surfaces, measurements, and distributions of phenomena toward low-entropy laws, symmetries, and conservation structures. Scientific Ontology / AMP / ITS instead begins from low-entropy primordial activity, boundary formation, and history-generating structure, then descends toward physical, informational, social, ethical, and interpretive phases. The two approaches may intersect and compete on shared vocabulary, but they do not originate from the same explanatory ground. This public edition is a conceptual and methodological framework. It is not a complete formal specification, an empirical scientific theory, an AI runtime package, a policy doctrine, or a disclosure of private core materials.