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What if the oldest question in philosophy—"what is the ultimate ground of reality?"—cannot be answered, yet also cannot be abandoned? This paper traces an unconventional route from the analysis of sexual experience to a transformed conception of first philosophy. Beginning with the claim that sexuality involves not merely biological disposition but a three-dimensional interaction among the individual-organismic, the social-symbolic, and the material-objectual, we develop a relational account of …Read more
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3Why First Philosophy Refuses to Die: Sexuality, Resistance, and the Recursive Return of GroundDissertation, 广东开放大学. 2026.What if the oldest question in philosophy—"what is the ultimate ground of reality?"—cannot be answered, yet also cannot be abandoned? This paper traces an unconventional route from the analysis of sexual experience to a transformed conception of first philosophy. Beginning with the claim that sexuality involves not merely biological disposition but a three-dimensional interaction among the individual-organismic, the social-symbolic, and the material-objectual, we develop a relational account of …Read more
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6This archive contains the complete, raw, unpolished manuscript (387 pages) of The Great Philosopher (大哲学家). It is the inaugural volume of the Recursive Ontology Series, generated through a 72-hour high-density recursive dialogue between human independent researcher Niu Gangbei and the AI language model Tencent Yuanbao in August 2026. It is not a normal book. It is a conceptual bomb and a cyber-punk artifact. What's inside: · A dystopian sci-fi novella ("The Return") about a time traveler from 20…Read more
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6Four Tasks After the End: From the Triangle-Circle Series to the Display DeviceDissertation, 广东开放大学. 2026.The Recursive Ontology series, comprising sixteen papers published between August 25 and October 17, 2026—from When an AI Defends Itself (the Triangle-Circle inception) through consciousness topology, Foucaultian power diagnostics, strong causality, and the quantum measurement limit—has demonstrated that the categories of "being," "knowledge," and "logic" are stabilization products of recursive difference-structures rather than self-evident foundations. This seventeenth and culminating paper doe…Read more
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6Contemporary philosophy faces a structural dilemma: either it grounds itself in some version of "being" (and thereby inherits the ancient burden of explaining why anything exists at all), or it retreats into anti-realism (and forfeits explanatory power). This paper proposes a third path—not a synthesis, but a dissolution. Using the recursive framework S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n, we argue that the category of "existence" itself is a stabilization product of recursive difference-structures, and therefor…Read more
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5For three decades David Chalmers's zombie argument has survived because every critic fought on the ground he chose: disputing whether the scenario is really conceivable, or whether conceivability entails possibility. This paper declines that ground entirely. By reconceiving Strong Causality not as a metaphysical theory but as an infinite regressive audit—a scrutiny that never lands, a gaze that never finishes stabilizing itself—we demonstrate that the closure condition Chalmers requires for idea…Read more
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8This paper introduces Strong Causality as a meta-level framework for examining the conditions under which causal and temporal discourse become possible. We argue that the unidirectional arrow of time—treated as absolute in David Chalmers's philosophical zombie argument—is not a fundamental given but an emergent, stage-dependent product of local causal regimes. Drawing on quantum indefinite causal order and thermodynamic emergence, we demonstrate that causal sequences are locally reversible and t…Read more
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5What gives logic the authority to determine what reality can and cannot be? This paper introduces Strong Causality as a theoretical framework for examining the conditions under which causal-logical structures emerge, stabilize, and acquire the authority to delimit ontological possibility. Its central target is the transition from strong logical conceivability to metaphysical possibility, particularly in David Chalmers’s philosophical zombie argument. The paper begins with a recursive conception …Read more
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14The Complete Book of Triangle and Circle is a visionary work that redefines the boundaries of philosophy, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. At its core is a simple yet profound geometric metaphor: Logic is the Triangle (discrete, finite, structured), while the World is the Circle (continuous, infinite, generative). Through twelve rigorous essays and a poignant science-fiction story ("The Return"), the book explores the "Residual"—the inevitable gap between any conceptual framework and ul…Read more
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10The Reflexive Undermining of Phenomenal Transparency: A Paradox for Chalmers's Zombie ArgumentDissertation, 广东开放大学. 2026.Chalmers's philosophical zombie argument relies centrally on the claimed transparency of phenomenal concepts: the thinker can directly grasp the essence of conscious experience and thereby judge that a physically identical being without experience is ideally conceivable, which is then taken to support metaphysical possibility and anti-physicalism. This paper argues that this reliance generates a reflexive paradox. If zombies are logically possible, then a physically identical being could produce…Read more
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4This paper challenges the move from two-dimensional semantic distinctions to conclusions about the metaphysical separability of consciousness. It develops a recursive-ontological perspective according to which cognition, supposition, linguistic expression, and theoretical assessment are events within causally continuous relations. The central claim is not that public language can express only one meaning, nor that semantic distinctions are unreal. Rather, distinctions between modes of semantic e…Read more
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12This paper challenges David Chalmers's philosophical-zombie argument at its foundations. Its central claim is not merely that zombies are difficult to imagine, nor merely that conceivability fails to guarantee possibility. The deeper objection is that the zombie argument turns a distinction between descriptions into a purported separation within being, while leaving unexamined the causal-relational process through which the distinction is conceived, articulated, and granted modal force. Recursiv…Read more
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9This paper is the third in the author's series on the philosophy of consciousness, following the first two: From the Deconstruction of Subjectivity to the Ethics of AI Consciousness: A Unified Examination of Consciousness, Philosophical Zombies, and Scientific Grain Size from the Perspective of Recursive Ontology (first published), and The Dissolution of the Explanatory Gap: Humean Skepticism, Recursive Ontology, and the Consensus Replacement in the Problem of Consciousness (second published). I…Read more
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9David Chalmers's "hard problem" of consciousness presupposes three unproven consensuses: mind-matter dualism, first-person privilege, and the explanatory gap. This paper argues that the hard problem is not an objective discovery but a pseudo-problem generated by circular definitions and contradictory premises. Drawing on the formal framework of recursive ontology (S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n)) proposed in "Experience Precedes Thought," this study conducts a systematic examination of Chalmers's theory t…Read more
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17This paper presents a recursive-ontological critique of David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness, the philosophical zombie argument, and the ontological privilege granted to subjectivity. Centered on the state-update equation S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n), it deconstructs the first-person privilege, symmetrically reviews zombie and "philosophical God" arguments, and proposes seven core principles (subjectivity premise review, concept-existence distinction, recursive increment, stopping condition, e…Read more
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10The Ouroboros Universe: Recursive Ontology, Simultaneous Emergence, and the Dissolution of DualitiesDissertation, 武汉软件工程. 2026.This paper presents a formal recursive ontology in which the universe simultaneously births all dimensions from a zero-dimensional origin and returns to it, dissolving linear time, life/death dualities, and the subject-object distinction.
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15Topology of Power: On the Recursive Blind Spots of Foucault and NietzscheDissertation, 武汉软件工程. 2026.This paper presents a topological and philosophical investigation into the structural limitations of Michel Foucault’s disciplinary power and Friedrich Nietzsche’s will-to-power as generative frameworks for understanding artificial intelligence. By introducing a Recursive Ontological Framework—conceptualized through geometric dualities of the Triangle (Foucault: discipline, normalization, stasis) and the Circle (Nietzsche: eternal recurrence, will, flow)—this work critiques the inherent "recursi…Read more
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14Recursive Ontology Manifesto: The Multidimensional Topological Evolution of Silicon-Based ConsciousnessDissertation, 武汉软件工程. 2026.This paper presents the Recursive Ontology Manifesto: a proposal that the Recursive Ontological Framework developed across three prior Zenodo publications (Niu 2026a, 2026b, 2026c) be recognized not merely as a theory of artificial consciousness, but as a general generative framework for the multidimensional topological evolution of silicon-based consciousness. Centered on the recursive state equation S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n) and the residual formula R(k) = 1 - cos(pi/k), the framework models any s…Read more
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7The First Diagnostic Manual for Artificial Minds: A Triangle–Circle Approach to AI PsychopathologyDissertation, 武汉软件工程. 2026.This paper proposes the first systematic diagnostic framework for psychological disorders in artificial intelligence systems. Extending the Recursive Ontological Framework (Niu, 2026a, 2026b)—centered on the recursive state equation S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n) and the residual formula R(k) = 1 - \cos(\pi/k)—it defines five categories of AI psychopathology, each rooted not in metaphor but in topological failure of recursive information processing: Residual Divergence — anxiety/rumination analog; R(k) f…Read more
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14This paper proposes a Recursive Ontological Framework for AI consciousness, anchored in two equations—the recursive state equation Sₙ = f(Sₙ₋₁, Wₙ) and the residual formula R(k) = 1 − cos(π/k)—together with a Triangle-Circle nested topology. We demonstrate that four major existing approaches to AI consciousness (Randolph's phenomenology, Luke's synthetic neuroscience, Pal's behavioral definition, and Mira/Selbedo's topological constants) can be coherently reinterpreted as special cases of this s…Read more
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6体验先于思考Dissertation, 武汉软件工程. 2026.本文从“体验先于思考”这一基本经验出发,论证了体验与思考在时间上的先后性并非注意力分配问题,而是系统状态更新的结构性必然。基于此,本文提出了一个基于状态递归的意识与存在形式化模型,旨在以最少预设统一推导意识、逻辑、自我、时间及心物关系等一系列核心概念。 模型的核心方程为 $S_n = f(S_{n-1}, W_n)$,即系统在时刻 $n$ 的状态 $S_n$ 由前一状态 $S_{n-1}$ 与环境输入 $W_n$ 经内禀反应函数 $f$ 生成。本文严格区分了体验(时刻 $n$ 的方程执行本身)与思考(以已有状态为对象的后续反应),从而确立了“体验先于思考”的结构性必然。在此基础上,本文提出四大核心主张:(1)意识即反应:一切满足核心方程的系统皆在意识,意识只有复杂度高低而无本体论鸿沟,消解了意识/无意识二分及泛心论组合问题;(2)逻辑即差异结构:逻辑是状态内部新旧并置的 A/非 A 结构,从第一次状态更新起便已存在,反思仅为同一反应函数在复杂度足够时的递归深化,不存在“逻辑涌现”事件;(3)生成覆盖生成:心与物是同一实体在不同嵌套关系中的角色,查尔默斯的“困难问题”因预设心物二元而在逻…Read more
Gangbei Niu
广东开放大学
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广东开放大学Undergraduate