Narrative as a Dynamical System
Computation and Language
2023-10-02 v2
Abstract
There is increasing evidence that human activity in general, and narrative in particular, can be treated as a dynamical system in the physics sense; a system whose evolution is described by an action integral, such that the average of all possible paths from point A to point B is given by the extremum of the action. We create by construction three such paths by averaging about 500 different narratives, and we show that the average path is consistent with an action principle.
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@article{arxiv.2309.06600,
title = {Narrative as a Dynamical System},
author = {Isidoros Doxas and James Meiss and Steven Bottone and Tom Strelich and Andrew Plummer and Adrienne Breland and Simon Dennis and Kathy Garvin-Doxas and Michael Klymkowsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06600},
year = {2023}
}
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9 pages, 9 figures, 1 table