AI, Causality, & Cosmic Reset

Inquiry 1: Khalq Jadid (The New Creation) vs. Discrete Computational Time-Steps

Khalq Jadid is poorly understood across the board in modern times, annihilation, starting from scratch at every moment is not what was intended. They are using words meant in a technical manner and translating them simply because the literalist interpretation is the safest one. But in maters of science the literal translation is often not what is meant, but in reality a high form of language or arabic.

Khalq Jadid Relates to how Allah holds the universe together where He is, from outside of it, not the universe itself. This is not talking about physics, it relates to the nature of Allah. Allah said I am time, But Allah does not change or move, and He encompasses time which the universe created. He holds every moment of time individually, not all of time together as a mesh which is the human perspective. Khalq Jadid is Allah's perspective, not ours.

The universe created time, and only the present exists, because time is space, and space is time, Allah holds the universe and time in his hand and transitions it from one moment to the next. The past no longer exists, and the new present has come into existence. The universe evolves according to its reactions, each reaction creates the future of its reaction, its result. While its past is erased. (Shaykh Rami)

Technical Context:

In the architecture of World Models (WMs), particularly those employing Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) or Transformer-based dynamics models (such as the "M" component in Ha and Schmidhuber’s original World Model), time is operationalized as a sequence of discrete steps ($t, t+1, t+2$).2 The model predicts the state of the world at $t+1$ based on the latent state at $t$ and an action $a$. This architecture relies fundamentally on the assumption of state persistence and horizontal causality. The algorithm assumes that the "world" is a continuous substance that persists from one frame to the next, modified only by specific causal interactions or "deltas." The computational goal is to learn the transition function $f(s_t, a_t) \rightarrow s_{t+1}$. This implies a metaphysics where the future is a direct, calculable output of the past, governed by learnable laws of persistence.

Metaphysical Framework:

Ibn ‘Arabi’s doctrine of Khalq Jadid (New Creation) offers a radically different view of temporality and substance. Drawing on Ash‘arite atomism but refining it through mystical intuition, Ibn ‘Arabi asserts that the cosmos is annihilated and recreated at every single instant (al-ān).6 There is no temporal duration ($zaman$) that connects one moment to the next in a causal chain; rather, the "entity" of the world returns to non-existence ('adam) and is instantly replaced by a similar, but not identical, counterpart.6 This creates the illusion of continuity, much like the frames of a film, but ontologically, there is no horizontal causal link between $t$ and $t+1$. The "then" (thumma) in the sequence denotes a logical sequence of Divine Acts, not a chronological persistence of matter.6 The only true Cause is the vertical descent of the Divine Command (Amr) at each instant. Causality is renewed at every moment; the fire does not burn the cotton because of an intrinsic property of fire, but because God creates "burning" in the cotton at the moment of contact.6

The Friction:

The PAN framework's "Physical" grounding relies explicitly on learning the "laws of physics" to predict $t+1$ from $t$.2 It assumes horizontal causality is real, stable, and learnable. If Ibn ‘Arabi is correct that causality is merely a "custom" (‘ada) of God—a statistical regularity in His creative habit—then a World Model is not learning the "laws of reality." It is merely modeling the statistical regularity of the Divine Habit.6 The AI assumes the persistence of the object (the 'ayn), whereas Akbarian ontology asserts the object vanishes and is replaced.6

Research Question 1:

Given the Akbarian doctrine of Khalq Jadid (New Creation), which posits that the cosmos is annihilated and recreated at every indivisible instant ($al-ān$) without horizontal causal continuity 6, does the fundamental architecture of World Models—which relies on learning transition functions between discrete time-steps ($t \rightarrow t+1$) based on an assumption of substantial persistence—condemn the AI to a permanent illusion of causality? Can a "Physical" (PAN) AI ever model the vertical dimension of the "New Creation," or is it structurally confined to simulating the "Habit" ($‘ada$) of the Divine, thereby mistaking statistical regularity for ontological necessity?

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