Narrative as a physical system: measurable parameters, not emotion labels
This page indexes the research programs of Levent Bulut (ORCID 0009-0007-7500-2261), founder of the Objective Projection methodology and the Bulut Doctrine. The primary source and canonical home of this work is leventbulut.com; this portal is its open, machine-readable research index. A structured version of this index is available as research-index.json.
Objective Projection & Narrative Engineering
Program 1 · The Physics of Literature
The founding program of the Bulut Doctrine. Objective Projection (Nesnel İzdüşüm) is a parametric methodology for narrative construction that encodes emotional states through six measurable physical variables — Luminous Decay, Thermal Gradient, Acoustic Impedance, Kinetic Momentum, Atmospheric Pressure, and Spatial Geometry — targeting the pre-cortical thalamo-amygdala pathway rather than cortical emotion labels. The program includes the Universal Biological Interface (UBI), the Two-Pathway Architecture, the Objective Projection Calibration Test (OPCT v1.0 and v2.0), and an annotated 500-scene dataset published on Hugging Face (DOI 10.57967/hf/8960).
Narrative Dynamics
Program 2 · Entropy, gravity, and persistence of narratives
This program applies thermodynamic and gravitational models to narrative structure. Narrative Entropy (Sn) quantifies structural complexity and disorder within a narrative system, formally compared against Shannon entropy (H) and operationalized through the Sn Measurement Protocol v1.0. Narrative Gravity (Ng) formalizes the mathematical mass and Vacuum Variable of high-entropy systems as a deterministic break from the MacGuffin. Narrative Inertia extends the doctrine to the persistence of narrative trajectories, connecting to Narrative Momentum (Nm), Narrative Memory Evolution (NME), and Narrative Ecosystem Dynamics (NED).
- Narrative Entropy (Sn) Structural complexity and the Sn metric: canonical definition, measurement protocol, and the registered two-scene pilot study. Canonical DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20459351
- Narrative Gravity (Ng) Mathematical mass and the Vacuum Variable in high-entropy systems; the Ng Operator and its operational definition. Operator DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19275490
- Narrative Inertia Why established narrative trajectories persist; the temporal dimension of the doctrine alongside Narrative Momentum (Nm). Related DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19458013
Information Physics & News Physics
Program 3 · Journalism, friction, and machine compression
This program extends the doctrine from literature to information systems and journalism. News Physics proposes a physical model of journalism practice, with its founding manifesto and a case-analysis scoring rubric. Information Friction is one of the two scored dimensions of the Sn Measurement Protocol — alongside Causal Branching — quantifying the resistance information encounters within a narrative system. Summarization Bias examines the systematic distortions introduced when machine systems, including large language models, compress narrative and journalistic source material into summaries.
- Information Friction A scored dimension of the Sn protocol: operational definitions, numerical scoring standards, and inter-rater reliability procedures. Protocol DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19410663
- Summarization Bias Systematic distortion in machine compression of narratives — how AI summarization alters physical matrices and biophysical output. Related DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20090216