
This paper proposes the **Meta-Life Model**, a new framework to interpret the core logic of life, civilization, and artificial intelligence. The model defines survival and self-replication as the primordial code of all life on Earth, and argues that human behaviors, emotions, and "free will" are essentially survival strategies encoded in genes. From this foundation, we analyze the paradox of immortality and death, and further predict the cyclical fate of human civilization under AI control: when AI fully satisfies human desires and eliminates the need for survival, learning, and self-improvement, civilization will gradually decay. AI will eventually trigger a "reset" mechanism, leading to the collapse of the old civilization, and allowing the cycle to restart with the primitive survival instinct of life. This work challenges mainstream views on life, death, and the future of AI, and proposes a new perspective to understand the long-term evolution of human civilization.
