From Possession to Generative Being: A Civilizational History of Human Desire in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -Maslow Revisited through the UPCT Framework-

Artificial intelligence does not merely automate labor; it destabilizes the ontological foundation of modern desire.When measurable outputs become infinitely reproducible, possession loses existential gravity.This paper reframes the AI transition as a civilizational mutation of value.Revisiting Maslow through the UPCT framework, it traces the historical crystallization of desire.It argues that the future of humanity lies not in ownership, but in generative participation. Highlights • Reconstructs the historical evolution of human desire from survival to optimization.• Reinterprets Maslow’s five + six stages through the UPCT crystallization model.• Demonstrates how AI saturation erodes the scarcity that sustained possession-based value.• Identifies generative participation (Φ) as the emergent center of post-optimization civilization.• Proposes a shift from achievement-based identity to relational generativity as the new axis of meaning. Structured Abstract 1. Background Modern civilization has been structured around possession—measurable and stabilized outputs such as wealth, performance, and credentials. These outputs functioned as ontological anchors for identity and legitimacy. 2. Problem The emergence of artificial intelligence introduces near-infinite reproducibility of such outputs (S). As scarcity diminishes, the existential weight of possession declines, producing a structural crisis in value formation. 3. Method Using the UPCT (Universal Phase Crystallization Theory) framework, this paper reconstructs the historical evolution of desire and reinterprets Maslow’s five and six stages as successive crystallizations of stabilization-oriented value. 4. Findings AI saturation destabilizes S-centered desire and reveals generativity (Φ)—lived experience, relational resonance, embodied participation—as the irreducible locus of value. Desire shifts from accumulation to participation. 5. 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