Narrative-Field Semantic Deviation: Experimental Design is a methodological specification by Lee Sharks, deposited 18 May 2026 at 17,926 characters.
It specifies an experiment for measuring semantic deviation within a bounded narrative simulation, using the digital edition of ChatGPT Psychosis: A Love Story as the field. The novel's toggle mechanism — non-simultaneous legibility, in which two readings cannot be held at once — supplies a controlled variable that ordinary text does not: a deviation can be induced deliberately and measured against a known baseline.
Treating a work of fiction as experimental apparatus is the design's distinctive move, and it keeps the two registers separable — the specification can be evaluated as a design whether or not the novel persuades. It is the fuller companion to the prospectus at #1376, and the project site implementing the toggle stands at #1377.