This revised expanded treatise develops an original macroscopic civilizational theory tailored to the joint era of nuclear deterrence, globalized economic integration, and universal super AI governance, breaking away from traditional philosophical utopianism and liberal end-of-history narratives. First, the text distinguishes the irreconcilable divide between mathematical-physical empirical systems and normative philosophical inquiry, demonstrating that unified universal philosophy can never be realized in the contemporary era. It systematically deconstructs the pseudo-freedom of neoliberal free markets, which impose monetary homogenization of human thought under the guise of liberal openness. Second, it identifies three epoch-defining physical variables that form humanity’s first globally unified survival cage: nuclear mutually assured destruction, worldwide industrial and risk integration, and algorithmic super-AI governance. The paper introduces the core distinction between negative physical unification (mandatory shared survival red lines to prevent species annihilation) and impossible positive normative unification (consensus on justice, value, meaning, and ethics). It demystifies the system’s "deliberate blank spaces" as a cold cost-benefit entropy management strategy rather than a grant of spiritual freedom, framing pluralistic ideological conflict as institutionalized "cultural redundancy" and emotional catharsis channels contained within a single physical framework. Third, the core binary logic of Entanglement Iteration Theory is formalized via five foundational axioms governing the interdependent, mutually restrictive, perpetually conflicting relationship between individual free will and collective systemic cages. The model integrates five nonlinear driving forces of civilizational evolution: individual rational transcendental questioning, systemic coercive order, autonomous technological evolution, historical path inertia, and biological irrational impulses. It proposes a historic inversion of freedom: rigid unified physical constraints unlock genuine intellectual pluralism, while nominal market liberalism generates utilitarian spiritual confinement. Fourth, the work reconstructs the nature of iterative artificial ethics for the nuclear age, prioritizing species civilizational survival over traditional individual-centric moral frameworks. It defines three core missions of contemporary philosophy: deconstructing obsolete liberal utopian paradigms, forecasting structural iterations of global systems, and sustaining permanent pluralistic ideological contestation to supply iterative tension for civilization. It further establishes a multidimensional existential dignity framework for critical thinkers, centering sustained vigilance over meta-power—the authority to set systemic algorithmic parameters, survival red lines, and emergency activation rules—to avoid individual resistance being co-opted as ornamental cultural spectacle by the systemic cage. Finally, the treatise addresses its own self-referential paradox by imposing strict reflexive theoretical boundaries: the framework is only a limited-validity explanatory model contingent on the persistence of nuclear weapons, globalization, and super AI, rather than an eternal universal truth. The concluding steady-state thesis establishes the core verdict of the theory: humanity’s mature civilizational future is a perpetually dynamic crisis equilibrium, marked by unified physical survival fate and permanently divided spiritual identities, endless entanglement between individual freedom and collective order, and uninterrupted civilizational iteration with no attainable utopian harmony. This definitive revised edition supplements critical arguments including parasitic algorithmic sovereignty, biological irrational evolutionary variables, and the definition of steady state as perpetual crisis management, correcting romanticized misinterpretations of systemic governance and one-sided tech-neutrality assumptions. Intended for scholars of political philosophy, global civilizational studies, nuclear strategic theory, AI governance ethics, and critical social theory, the archive provides a standalone systematic theoretical framework for analyzing long-term human civilizational evolution under dual nuclear-AI structural constraints.
Pige Li (Fri,) studied this question.