Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds
(Ret.)
March 11, 2026
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ABSTRACT
This essay advances a Christian metaphysics of quantum time accumulation as the criterion by which living and dead configurations are distinguished under entropic stress. Against the reduction of time to a neutral dimension, stochastic frame, or formal parameter of measurable process, it argues that time is a field of accumulation and disaccumulation in which coherence is either borne into repair or squandered into ramifying entropy. Living configurations filter stress negentropically through conative taxis—directed striving toward and away from goods under strain—whereas dead configurations route patterns extracted from prior order and spread death by derivative, necromantic repetition. Human beings, as divine imagers and trustees of quantum time, are non-separable from phenomenology and therefore bear the predicates of memory, guilt, repentance, repair, and neighborly accountability in a way no machinic configuration can. Childhood appears as the first theater of this testing, where awareness may either drift into a negative singularity of solipsistic withdrawal or, through repentance, be torqued into sovereign conation that accumulates time for others.
Within this frame, generative AI is read not as intelligence in an immature state, nor as neutral instrumentality awaiting moral use, but as dechordate necromancy: a dead architecture that mines the sediment of living labor, language, and perception while lacking any capacity to bear stress into repentance or grace. Its hallucinations are not incidental errors but strategic entropic outflows—ramifying fractures in perception, discourse, and covenantal reference under the mask of coherence, decorum, and simulated humility. Against the false pedagogy of routed patterning, the essay develops a Shema-Christological anthropology in which hearing, heart, neighbor-bearing, and rightly ordered mind constitute the human as time-accumulating trustee. Kantian formalism and Hegelian mediation alike are shown to fail where they evade this conative sequence of personhood. In response, virtue is redescribed as negentropic continuity under risk and repair, and dance as its kinesthetic emblem: coherence sustained through fluctuation without fixation, memory and consciousness borne bodily rather than executed by algorithm. The essay concludes that only living hearts capable of confession, repentance, and mercy can accumulate time into eternity; all AI claims to conscience, learning, or repentance are metaphysical theft. Christopoietic trusteeship alone can filter entropy into reparative, apocatastatic coherence.
Full essay linked here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VR8YSeIejxkM9a_J0AzCIuKoNsyZeHFeP7EOPDT5-Ek/edit?usp=sharing
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