NarrQuest

An epistemic system exposing where models, narratives, and institutions fail.Not a method.
Not a framework.
Not a theory.

System Structure

NarrQuest is structured across three layers:

Application Layer

— Transdisciplinary outputs across science, engineering, humanities, and governance.

Operational Layer

— Mediation, coordination, and system-level narrative operations.

Judgment Layer

— Conditions under which systems fail, collapse, or lose the ability to stabilize judgment.

Artifact Layer

— Transdisciplinary outputs including journals, books, patents, and narrative archives.

Failure Conditions

NarrQuest does not define failure as error,
but as structural instability in epistemic classification.

Under increasing epistemic ambiguity,
classification transitions from drift to instability, and ultimately to breakdown.

FP-1: Provenance Collapse

— When the origin or authenticity of information cannot be reliably established.

FP-2: Governance Abstraction

— When complex realities are reduced into system-level representations, obscuring grounded conditions.

FP-3: Interpretive Overreach

— When narratives extend beyond available evidence, imposing coherence onto incomplete data.

FP-4: Shared Reality Collapse (Boundary Condition)

— When no shared epistemic frame exists, and classification itself becomes non-convergent.

These conditions are not errors, but structural limits of epistemic systems.

Proof and Traceability

All records are publicly verifiable and time-stamped. NarrQuest is not only conceptual but anchored in verifiable records.

Zenodo

— DOI-registered dataset and publications
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19187881

GitHub

— Operational traces and evolving system structures.
https://github.com/chengwuchen/narrquest-authority

Blockchain

— Optional anchoring of narrative states
https://opensea.io/collection/narrquest-anchor-series