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cs.CL2023
The Dynamical Principles of Storytelling
Isidoros Doxas, James Meiss, Steven Bottone +6
When considering the opening part of 1800 short stories, we find that the first dozen paragraphs of the average narrative follow an action principle as defined in arXiv:2309.06600.…
cs.CL2023
Narrative as a Dynamical System
Isidoros Doxas, James Meiss, Steven Bottone +6
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 des…