Neuronarrative Biology TM & the Neuronarrative Continuum TM: A Formal-Structural Foundation of Narrative Order

This paper establishes Neuronarrative Biology™ as a formal–structural theoretical discipline and introduces the Neuronarrative Continuum™ (NNC) as its central structural model for describing narrative ordering processes within a single human system (intrapersonal level). Narrative organization is not understood as meaning processing or a psychological process, but as a purely formal structural movement. Narrative stimulus forms—including sequences, rhythms, density distributions, micro-impulses, and transition modes—are conceptualized as formally describable units whose scientific relevance lies exclusively in their structural organization. The paper introduces a strictly structural-scientific distinction between the narrative and the non-narrative structural world and anchors this distinction within the definitional standard of the discipline. Within this ordering framework, the Neuronarrative Continuum™ (NNC) describes narrative stimulus orders as continuous structural fields organized along defined axes, vectors, and transition densities. The Neuronarrative Triform™—consisting of the neuronarrative essay, neuronarrative miniature, and neuronarrative fragment—is introduced as a formal classification of narrative stimulus modes and systematically positioned within the model. The associated research field is defined as a theoretical space in which human narrative structural forms can be described, classified, and made comparable. All models presented in this paper are purely theoretical in nature and operate exclusively on a formal–structural descriptive level. The scientific significance of this paper lies in the provision of a consistent, definitorially closed structural order that renders future research in linguistics, cognitive science, model theory, and systems theory connectable on a clearly delineated formal foundation. As a foundational work, this paper defines the structural basis of Neuronarrative Biology™ and opens an independent scientific frame of reference beyond semantic, psychological, or functional models of narrativity.