Author: Jaconaazar Souza Silva
Institution: Laboratory Technician at IFB – Recanto das Emas Campus
Project: XChronos
Date: 2025
🌐 https://xchronos.org
Abstract
This article proposes a philosophical integration between the concept of Kairos — qualitative, synchronous, and meaningful time — and the symbolic architecture of the XChronos project, through a contemporary reading of Chronos as chronological and alienating time.
Based on the article “Kairos x Chronos: The Time of All Things” by Nadir Chagas Ribeiro dos Santos (2015), and on the XChronos proposals about chronons, hexachronons, and the symbolic currency Hexa (ɗ), we investigate how the reintegration of subjective temporality can restore value, presence, and meaning to human experience.
1. Introduction
We live in an age where time has been segmented, metrified, and dominated by a quantitative paradigm.
As Nadir Santos (2015) points out, this clocked time — Chronos — has become an ontological prison, replacing natural rhythms, inner experiences, and flows of meaning.
In contrast, the forgotten figure of Kairos emerges — the opportune time, lived in sync with meaning and consciousness.
The XChronos project proposes a temporal architecture based on subjective time units: chronons, hectachronons, and hexachronons, culminating in the symbolic currency Hexa (ɗ).
This new topology of time suggests a way to measure wealth not by the accumulation of goods, but by the conscious density of lived experience.
2. Kairos and Chronos in the Philosophical Tradition
In Santos’ article, we find a dense and accessible reading of the dichotomy between:
- Chronos: linear, predictable, industrial time
- Kairos: qualitative, synchronous, meaningful time
Inspired by Henri Bergson, C.S. Lewis, and Joseph Campbell, the author shows how Kairos represents la durée pure — time lived inside consciousness, beyond the clock.
This understanding aligns with:
- Ontological idealism
- Jungian synchronicity
- Quantum economics (David Orrell)
Kairos, in this context, is the time of the chronons — where meaning condenses into form.
3. XChronos as Symbolic Technology of Subjective Time
XChronos seeks to mint time qualitatively.
Each Hexachronon is a symbolic block of dense presence, measured not by seconds, but by states of flow, insight, and transformation.
The Hexa (ɗ) currency is a lived token of meaning —
a symbolic act of registering inner time.
4. Reclaiming Presence as Political and Spiritual Act
By invoking Kairos and minting Hexas, XChronos enacts a symbolic resistance against temporal alienation.
Becoming aware of your subjective time is a revolutionary act.
As Santos reminds us, there’s incoherence in homogenizing time:
While some live in war, others live in peace;
Some are harvesting, others are planting.
XChronos recognizes this multipolarity and offers a system where individual experience is not only valid, but symbolically measurable.
5. Conclusion
Human time must be restored to its dignity.
The encounter between Kairos and XChronos enables the emergence of a new temporal paradigm, where:
- Presence replaces productivity
- Meaning replaces haste
- Consciousness replaces repetition
References
- SANTOS, Nadir Chagas Ribeiro dos. Kairos x Chronos: The Time of All Things. Revista Pandora Brasil, no. 69, 2015.
- SILVA, Jaconaazar Souza. Hexa (ɗ): The Currency of Conscious Time in the XChronos Model. Zenodo.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15183862
10.5281/zenodo.15185670
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