21st Century Consciousness Science: 27 Open Questions — A Research Program Centered on Quantum Geometry

This work proposes the research framework of inorganic life science, breaking the traditional definition of life limited to organic carbon-based organisms. We sort out core theoretical contradictions existing in the boundary of life definition, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and geological self-organized structures, and systematically put forward 27 open fundamental problems covering structural autonomy, thermodynamic threshold, information heredity, evolutionary mechanism and cognitive emergence. These questions aim to establish a unified theoretical criterion for judging general life systems and provide research clues for exploring non-carbon life, robot autonomous life and planetary-scale self-organized entities.