The Synechite Framework: From Chemistry to Heredity Through Persistent Chemical Organization

What if heredity did not begin with a genetic molecule? The Synechite Framework proposes that hereditary continuity could emerge from persistent chemical organization before precise sequence-based inheritance existed. Chemical systems can retain consequences of their history, reorganize through material turnover, transmit organizational differences, and undergo differential continuation. As such organization becomes increasingly integrated, molecular sequences can become part of an already history-dependent system, providing progressively more precise forms of heredity. The framework therefore shifts the question from “Which molecule came first?” to “How did chemistry become organized enough to carry its history forward?” It presents heredity not as an isolated molecular invention, but as a continuing organizational process extending from prebiotic chemistry into genetic and cellular life.