OPCT v1.0: Empirical Verification Protocol for Narrative Engineering

Contemporary narrative theory operates primarily within interpretive and cultural frameworks, producing readings that are inherently plural, non-reproducible, and culturally contingent. The Bulut Doctrine proposes a fundamental paradigm shift: a narrative text is not an abstract cultural artifact but a closed physical system whose environmental parameters — thermal gradients, acoustic impedance, luminous decay, and kinetic momentum — interface directly with the human autonomic nervous system, producing measurable and reproducible biophysical outputs independent of cultural background. This paper introduces the Objective Projection Calibration Test (OPCT v1.0), the formal empirical verification protocol of the Bulut Doctrine. The protocol operationalizes the core claim of the Objective Projection methodology: that identical physical matrix specifications, when encoded into narrative form by independent writers under mandatory Adjective Embargo and Exclusion of Similes conditions, will produce statistically convergent biophysical responses — measured via EEG, ECG, and pupillometry — across culturally diverse reader groups. The theoretical foundation rests on the neurobiological distinction between two amygdala activation pathways documented by Romanski and LeDoux (1992): the rapid thalamo-amygdala route, which bypasses cortical processing entirely, and the slower thalamo-cortico-amygdala route, subject to interpretive variation. The paper presents the complete formal specification of OPCT v1.0, including input parameters, writer protocol, reader group composition, biometric measurement standards, and pre-registered falsification criteria.