Chirality_ The Minimal Asymmetry Underlying Memory and Intelligence

CODES Framework Abstract This paper formally proposes that chirality—directional asymmetry—is the minimal structural condition required for memory, lawful recursion, and coherent emergence across physical, biological, and symbolic systems. We trace the history of chirality from Pasteur’s molecular observations to the asymmetry of DNA, parity violation in physics, and left-right cognitive bifurcation. We then show that current stochastic systems (e.g. LLMs) fail to persist memory lawfully due to their chirality-blind architecture. Using the CODES framework and the Resonance Intelligence Core (RIC), we present a deterministic model of inference that encodes chirality into the substrate itself, enabling coherent symbolic recursion. This positions chirality not as a chemical artifact, but as the substrate law of structured resonance and the precondition for all intelligent systems.