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Studies of evolving complex systems (X-systems)—organic life, society, language, mind, culture, technology, ideology, science, art, politics, economics—do not have a common language either between themselves or with any particular natural science. This essay continues the search (at http://spiropero.net/complexity.htm ) for a common interdisciplinary language for understanding X-system, using the paradigm of Pattern Theory (Ulf Grenander) as generalized chemistry and emphasizing the kinetic aspects. The semantic units for this language are labeled as ideograms. From this angle, Hannah Arendt’s homo faber is seen side by side .....