Chiralkine counting treats counting as synchronization with time: past, present and future. Each step involves coupling between different temporal states (past, present, future), ensuring that counting is fully integrated across time.
The order in which the steps are performed does not matter. What matters is that all three steps are performed.
Step 1: Present Couples with Past
- The present state interacts with the past, transferring part of its information.
- Both past and present rotate one step forward in the chiralkine color cycle.
- However, the future remains uncoupled, meaning it has not yet been synchronized with the process.
Step 2: Present Couples with Future
- The present now interacts with the future, continuing the process.
- Since the present already rotated once in Step 1, it rotates one more step.
- Meanwhile, the future rotates once to begin integrating into the cycle.
- Now, past and future are still only singly coupled, meaning counting is not yet fully closed.
Step 3: Past Couples with Future (Completing the Ring)
- The past and future now interact directly, which finalizes the synchronization.
- At this point, each of past, present, and future is doubly coupled, meaning all relationships are fully integrated. The colour wheel has now been rotated through three steps in relation to each of past, present and future.
- This closes the counting cycle in a ring, ensuring that all “is” and “not” pairs are aligned.
- Counting is now complete, and all counted objects exist in a fully synchronized relational state.

Key Insight: Chiralkine Counting Aligns Time in a Ring
- Instead of a linear past → present → future timeline (as in equation-based arithmetic), chiralkine counting treats time as a cycle.
- The three coupling steps ensure that past, present, and future interact symmetrically—just as the three-step chiralkine cycle ensures full relational closure.
Comparison to Equation-Based Arithmetic
- Equation-based counting is incomplete because it only works in two steps (subtraction and addition). In standard arithmetic, subtraction removes an object from the uncounted set, and addition records it in the counted set, but this process does not capture relational symmetry or track how states evolve cyclically.
- Chiralkine counting requires three steps to fully align past, present, and future, preventing loss of relational information.
- The final state is a ring, meaning time and counting processes are fully synchronized, unlike the linear addition/subtraction model.