Author:
Jaconaazar Souza Silva – Audiovisual Laboratory Technician, IFB Campus Recanto das Emas
Project: XChronos — The Copernican Clock of Consciousness in Motion
Introduction: Between Observation and Collapse
Every time we look attentively at something that once seemed neutral, it changes.
Just like an electron collapsing its wavefunction upon measurement, symbolic time begins to pulse when conscious attention is directed—and this generates value.
But… value of what kind?
In this chapter, we propose that conscious attention generates nonlocal symbolic presence, functioning as an ontological mechanism capable of transforming noise into meaning—both in physical and digital space.
1. Time as Symbolic Collapse
In XChronos, we say that time is not a line, but a map of subjectively marked events—instances of lived significance.
These events are measured as symbolic units called Chronons — particles of experienced time.
Each Chronon emerges when attention collapses a potential field of experiences into a single perception infused with meaning. This is analogous to quantum mechanics: before collapse, many possibilities coexist; after it, only one remains.
Time, in this model, is not counting. It is collapse.
And collapsing with awareness is world-creation.
2. The Nonlocality of Attention
In quantum physics, two entangled photons remain connected instantly, even if separated by billions of miles.
This phenomenon—nonlocality—inspires us to ask:
What if conscious attention is also nonlocal?
When you access a piece of content, a symbol, or a thought—it gains presence.
And this can occur in any interface, anywhere, as long as an observer makes it conscious.
In this sense, attention creates digital presence.
Likes, views, clicks… are crude versions of it.
But XChronos proposes a more refined measurement:
the value of being present as a symbolic collapse of the real.
3. Synchronicity as a Value Architecture
Carl Jung called synchronicity the meaningful coincidence between internal and external events without apparent causal connection.
In XChronos, synchronicities are seen as simultaneous collapses between attention and symbol, between subjective time and digital event.
For example: you think of a name, and it appears in your feed.
It wasn’t just the algorithm—it was you who collapsed that symbol into visibility by thinking with intention. The algorithm merely reacted.
This convergence between subject and symbol can be measured in Chronons, Hexachronons, and Metachronons — layers of symbolic time crossing systems, networks, and consciousness.
4. Meaningful Presence as the Currency of a New World
We live in an era where attention is the scarcest resource.
But we lack a symbolic metric that values qualified attention—the kind that collapses reality with awareness, intention, and transformation.
XChronos proposes that:
- The Hexa (ɧ) be adopted as the symbolic currency of meaningful attention.
- Each conscious collapse, recorded as a Chronon, can generate real value—not through advertising, but through ontological presence.
Presence is wealth.
Conscious presence is power.
Symbolic presence is eternity.
Conclusion: Time as the Art of Seeing
This chapter is an invitation.
To live time as an artist.
To recognize that we are not bound to Newton’s clock, but instead are activating an inner, generative, Copernican timepiece.
In this model, you are not dragged by time—you create it.
XChronos does not measure seconds. It measures meaning.
https://zenodo.org/records/15200491
10.5281/zenodo.15200491