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Abstract
This article discusses three different ways of representing a single, uniquely identifiable complex system object.
These representations originate from the domains of Biophysics and Information Systems Engineering, but with
care they may be mapped to any complex system object.
The representations are the origin of /.Xio, a type-free, scale-free knowledge asset which can represent an "object
of care" in any knowledge domain.