Narrative Simulation Without a Core Self: A Multi-POV Fictional Model for Testing the Subjectivity of Morality and Selfhood

This research investigates the cognitive and existential structure of a self operating without a core identity. Through a simulated narrative environment—designed using fictional characters with divergent psychological and sociocultural frameworks—the project examines how morality, agency, and emotional allegiance are constructed entirely from narrative positioning.The researcher, lacking a stable core-self, employs artificial intelligence as a narrative processor and external mirror to explore questions of moral subjectivity and identity formation. Characters were programmed with distinct "cores" and placed in ethically complex situations. Their behaviors, when observed across conflicting POVs, reveal that moral judgment is a byproduct of perspective, not truth.Findings suggest that in the absence of a centralized self, narrative continuity becomes the only viable method of psychological survival. The study demonstrates that fictional multi-POV modeling can serve as a powerful diagnostic tool for examining existential fragmentation and the illusion of moral objectivity.This is not fiction as art, nor fiction as entertainment. It is fiction as function—designed to hold together a consciousness that no longer possesses a stable "I" to hold itself.