Wang Desheng is a mathematician and philosopher whose work integrates computational science, artificial intelligence, education innovation, and civilizational theory. He is best known for establishing SIO Ontology (Subject-Interaction-Object Ontology), a generative framework that redefines reality not as a world of pre-given subjects and objects, but as co-emergent SIO wholes formed and transformed through interaction. In this view, "subject," "interaction," and "object" are not separate substances; they are different emphases and projections within an integral SIO unity. Wang's intellectual program is driven by a central aim: to rebuild the foundations of knowledge, method, and meaning for the AI era. His research develops a rigorous account of genesis over discovery, arguing that the core of science is not the passive detection of fixed properties, but the public creation, stabilization, and evolution of entities under meaning-driven constraints. Within this approach, "truth, goodness, and beauty" are treated as normative constraints derived from meaning, while "creation, freedom, and happiness" function as the deeper drivers of sustainable scientific and civilizational growth. Trained in advanced mathematics and long-term computational modeling, Wang's scientific orientation emphasizes structure, reproducibility, and mechanism. At the same time, his philosophical work extends beyond technical method into the dynamics of institutions, education, and collective intelligence.
He argues that AI systems primarily operate within symbolic recombination, while genuine scientific genesis requires sustained coupling with real-world consequences, institutional verification, and human responsibility-an insight developed further through his concept of human-AI composite intelligence. In What Is Science?, Wang Desheng articulates a Copernican shift in philosophy of science: from object discovery to entity genesis, from value-neutral narratives to meaning-driven mechanisms, and from "truth temples" to a workshop of entity creation capable of renewing scientific practice and civilizational direction.