The Three Axioms of SIO is written for an age that looks powerful yet feels out of breath. Progress accelerates, but meaning thins. Goals become dashboards and KPI checklists; pathways become "implementation" and "best practices"; motivation turns into pressure, anxiety, and burnout disguised as productivity. Dr. Desheng Wang argues these are not separate crises-they are symptoms of one deep philosophical error: modern civilization mistakes shadows for being. We treat "subject," "object," and "interaction" as independent, self-existing entities, then build knowledge, ethics, science, and institutions on that fiction. But nothing exists in isolation. What exists is SIO-Subject-Interaction-Object as one co-generative whole.
When we forget this, goals lose weight, paths lose their middle section, and engines run on the wrong fuel. The result is stalled innovation, chronic conflict, compensatory overwork, and unfinished projects at every scale. The book proposes a minimal constitution for repair: three axioms that realign reality, method, and motivation. Axiom I: Shadow Returns to Being. Subject, interaction, and object are not prior substances. They are different emphases within one SIO unity. Restore the unit of reality, and goals regain density and direction. Axiom II: Discovery Returns to Genesis.
"Discovery" is often a rewrite after the fact. True creation is born in the middle of genesis-where uncertainty, failure, tension, reorganization, and transformation produce new structures. Rebuilding this middle turns strategy into an iterable path rather than a linear myth. Axiom III: Value Returns to Meaning. Truth, goodness, and beauty stabilize systems, but they are not engines. The fuel is meaning dynamics-creation, freedom, and happiness cycling through lived interaction. When values are mistaken as fuel, society enters a cycle of weakening compensation: more control, less vitality. Beyond philosophy, this book is a diagnostic and design manual.
It shows how to locate whether a system is failing at the level of goal, path, or motivation-and how to rebuild it by restoring the SIO unit, the genesis pathway, and the meaning engine. A featured application in health reframes Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and interactive medicine as complementary position-specializations, offering a blueprint for chronic conditions and modern burnout. Concise, and built for action today.