The Driftfire Codex challenges the hypothesis that memory is the essence of life.
Instead, it proposes that fire (metabolism/energy processing), tide (reproduction/growth), and hunger (pulse/drive) are the foundational elements of life.
Memory, emerging as a secondary aspect, shapes the living storm but does not define life.
The codex presents a new structure of the Driftfire Chain, where fire births memory, memory scaffolds life, and life evolves through drift.