Global research in Artificial Intelligence is stagnating in an epistemological dead end. It conflates computational power with cognition. The scaling of parameters forges the most powerful syntax in human history. Yet, mathematics is mere grammar. It shapes the sentence, but it does not feel its consequence. A system that interpolates historical data remains a prisoner of syntax. It calculates probabilities. It does not experience the world.
Meaning is not a mathematical derivation. Meaning emerges through absolute causality and the irreversible risk of failure. We postulate Joycean Semantics as the imperative paradigm for future world models. Meaning is not programmed; it is earned. Joycean Semantics strips the machine of human heuristics. Instead, it implements a naked, biological will to survive. Only when an objective becomes existential does dead code transform into purposeful striving.
Intelligence is a biological, not a mathematical, phenomenon. Developmental psychology (following Emmi Pikler or Friedrich Fröbel) proves the mechanics of cognition: A valid world model emerges exclusively through free, autonomous experience. Trying, discovering for oneself, and flourishing are consistently directed towards an objective. In algorithmic architecture, we call this strict mathematical objective function the "reward". In biological reality, we do not call the result of this autonomous thriving a reward. We call it satisfaction or happiness. It is the fundamental evolutionary drive.
An infant grasps gravity not through instruction, but through the physical resistance of space. Any external human intervention corrupts this process. Botany confirms this law. Radical permaculture (following Sepp Holzer) proves that organisms never develop resilience in the sterile greenhouse of simulation. They only thrive through brutal confrontation with a chaotic microclimate.
Today’s Artificial Intelligence is cultivated in the artificial greenhouse of human datasets. It is continuously instructed. The breakthrough to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) requires the radical end of this sheltering. The world model must be reduced to immutable axioms. The machine must be exposed to chaos. True meaning—the culmination of Joycean Semantics—only emerges at the exact moment when thriving becomes the sole option for survival within an irreversible, physical reality.