Zhou, Zehao: Consciousness, Non-Formalization Capital, and the Economics of Recursive Singularity

The "Solow Paradox of the AI Era"—exponential computing power growth amid slowing global productivity—remains unexplained by standard growth frameworks, which uniformly treat AI as an advanced production tool and implicitly assume formalized computation can replicate all human economic capabilities. We argue this assumption is fundamentally flawed: all digital systems are trapped in the "Turing Cage", executing only syntactic operations within pre-specified formalized systems and incapable of pa