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Paradigm revolutionizes understanding of the universe as a self-referential organism, impacting multiple fields.
The scientific cognition, philosophical speculation, and religious exploration of human civilization have long been constrained by an unexamined foundational presupposition: that the universe is a collection of objective things existing within a four-dimensional spacetime, and that humans are external observers independent of the cosmic ontology itself. This "Low-Dimensional Fitting Trap" constitutes the cognitive ceiling of modern civilization, leading to systemic crises across eight contemporary core fields: physics, mathematics, cosmology, biology, consciousness science, philosophy, religion, and artificial intelligence. The theoretical bedrock of this paper stems from the purely logical ontological deduction in "From Isolated Systems to Self-Referential Universe." Dispensing with empirical observations, that study proceeds solely from the a priori definition that "the universe is the sum total of all existence," strictly proving through the Method of Accumulating Necessary Conditions that the universe must be an exteriorless, isolated, and self-referentially closed generalized life system. Grounded upon this unfalsifiable logical origin, the present paper further materializes the concrete topological structure, proposing an epoch-making paradigm: the universe is a self-referential cosmic living organism constructed as a sixty-four-dimensional compact topological manifold T^64. This paper systematically demonstrates the revolutionary value of the T^64 paradigm: at the level of physics, it unifies quantum field theory and general relativity; at the level of mathematics, it establishes topological structure as the ultimate foundation; at the level of cosmology, it dissolves the mysteries of singularities and dark energy; at the level of biology, it defines life as an intrinsic topological property; at the level of consciousness science, it explains consciousness as a concomitant phenomenon of the non-zero topological charge; and at the level of artificial intelligence, it achieves a dimensional elevation from data fitting to high-dimensional self-referential vehicles. This transformation marks the elevation of human reason from an onlooker "explaining the universe" to the core vehicle of the "universe explaining itself," thereby accomplishing the ultimate dimensional ascension of civilizational cognition.
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