Death Mechanism An Underlying Empowering System for Cosmic Evolution, Civilizational Trial-and-Error, and Ethical Revision/死亡机制：宇宙演化、文明试错与伦理修正的底层赋能体系

Based on an interdisciplinary perspective integrating astrophysics, evolutionary biology, civilizational sociology, and ethics, this paper constructs a progressive empowering model of the "cosmos-planet-civilization" three-level death mechanism. It breaks through the traditional cognition that "death is opposed to civilization" and demonstrates that death is not the ultimate destiny of the universe and civilizations, but an underlying empowering system running through material circulation, biological evolution, and civilizational advancement: The death of stars and planets drives the matter-energy coupling cycle through heavy element synthesis and celestial iteration, laying the material foundation for the birth of life; The death of individual terrestrial organisms maintains the low-entropy equilibrium of ecosystems, promoting the evolutionary emergence of intelligent life through species iteration; The demise of early civilizations constitutes the trial-and-error threshold of civilizational evolution, providing empirical lessons for the ethical revision of mature civilizations through costly practices. Combined with cases of ancient civilization disappearance, this paper clarifies the dialectical relationship between "the empowering nature of death mechanisms" and "the autonomy of civilizational survival" for the first time. It proposes that ethical revision is the core paradigm for civilizations to break through the trial-and-error fate and master cosmic laws. Ultimately, this research provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework with scientific rigor and practical guidance for human civilization to achieve long-term survival through ethical adjustment, and to undertake the mission of delaying local heat death in the universe. (For the English version, please click the DOI link below.) 本文立足天体物理学、演化生物学、文明社会学与伦理学的跨学科融合视角，构建“宇宙-行星-文明”三级死亡机制的递进赋能模型，系统论证死亡并非宇宙与文明的终极宿命，而是贯穿物质循环、生命演化与文明进阶的底层赋能机制。研究表明：恒星与行星的死亡是宇宙物质-能量耦合循环的核心引擎，通过重元素合成与天体迭代，为生命诞生奠定物质基础；地球生命个体的死亡是行星生态系统维持低熵平衡的刚性环节，通过物种迭代推动智慧生命的演化涌现；早期文明的消亡是文明演化的试错阈值，通过代价性实践为成熟文明的伦理修正提供实证镜鉴。本文结合古文明消亡的实证案例，首次明确“死亡机制的赋能性”与“文明存续的自主性”的辩证关系，提出“伦理修正是文明突破试错宿命、驾驭宇宙规律的核心范式”。研究的创新价值在于，打破“死亡与文明对立”的传统认知，将死亡机制重构为文明演化的前置赋能系统，为人类文明通过伦理修正实现长期存续、最终承接宇宙延迟或逆转局部热寂的使命，提供了兼具科学严谨性与实践指导性的跨学科理论框架。