Gangbei Niu

Four Tasks After the End: From the Triangle-Circle Series to the Display Device

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 li...

Recursive Ontology and the Limits of First-Philosophy: A Unified Account of Auditing, Self-Destruction, and Quantum Indeterminacy

Contemporary 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 thi...

The Scrutiny That Does Not Land: Strong Causality as Infinite Regressive Audit and the Wuji-Dissolution of Chalmers's Ideal Conceivability

For 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 Stron...

A Recursive-Ontological Critique of Chalmers' Hard Problem, Philosophical Zombies, and Subjectivity Privilege: AI Consciousness Ethics, Qualia, and Scientific Grain Size

This 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-...