Existence, Categorization and Stratification-The Basic Grammar of Intelligence and the Emergence Mechanism of the Need-State Chain Network(V1.0)

This paper proposes that the irreducible foundation of intelligence consists of three coupled substrates: Existence (Lack-Completion Oscillation as the source drive), Categorization (hard-boundary spatiotemporal cutting including Value-State Cutting and Event Segmentation), and Stratification (spatiotemporal vertical compression via Granularity Channels and Temporal Compression). Their coupling gives rise to the Need-State Chain Network (NSCN), the minimum operable form of intelligence. The paper advances two core arguments. First, "life" is not an ontological prerequisite for intelligence, but an inevitable byproduct of self-differentiation through categorization. Second, current artificial intelligence—whether token-level Transformers or prediction-driven World Models such as JEPA—encounters a Structural Impossibility in achieving true intelligence, because it simultaneously lacks endogenous existence, genuine hard-boundary categorization, and demand-driven stratification. A dedicated comparative analysis with Yann LeCun's JEPA framework clarifies that NSCN stratification is not an optimization of representational abstraction, but a grammar of existential maintenance: survival-adjudication at the top layer, causal hard-boundaries between layers, and demand-triggered inter-layer leaps. This is Version 1.0 of the theoretical framework. Keywords: existence, categorization, stratification, need-state chain network, structural impossibility, self-differentiation, JEPA, world models, AGI, philosophy of intelligence 本文提出智能的不可约减基础由三重耦合基底构成:存在(作为源动力的缺失-完备振荡)、分类(包含值位切割与事件分段的硬边界时空切割机制)、分层(包含粒度通道与时程压缩的时空纵向压缩机制)。三者耦合涌现需求态链网(NSCN),即智能的最小可操作形态。 本文的核心论点有二:第一,"生命"并非智能的本体论前提,而是分类机制下自我区分的必然副产物;第二,当前人工智能——无论是token级Transformer还是预测驱动的JEPA等世界模型——因同时缺失内生存在、真硬边界分类与需求驱动分层,遭遇结构性不可能。 本文专设章节与杨立昆(Yann LeCun)的JEPA框架进行对话,阐明NSCN分层并非表征抽象的优化,而是存在维持的语法结构:顶层为生存裁决、层间为因果硬边界、跨层跃迁由需求触发。 此为该理论框架的 1.0 版。 关键词: 存在,分类,分层,需求态链网,结构性不可能,自我区分,JEPA,世界模型,通用人工智能,智能哲学