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Narrative Intelligence (NI) - the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies - studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common reference point for NI researchers, providing perspectives from computational linguistics, agent research, psychology, ethology, art, and media theory. It describes artificial agents with narratively structured behavior, agents that take part in stories and tours, systems that automatically generate stories, dramas, and documentaries, and systems that support people telling their own stories. It looks at how people use stories, the features of narrative that play a role in how people understand the world, and how human narrative ability may have evolved. It addresses meta-issues in NI: the history of the field, the stories AI researchers tell about their research, and the effects those stories have on the things they discover.
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Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series B: Research in progress. Experimental, descriptive and clinical research in consciousness.
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial Board David Chalmers, University of Arizona Gordon G. Globus, University of California at Irvine Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University Earl Mac Cormac, Duke University George Mandler, University of California at San Diego John R. Searle, University of California at Berkeley Petra Stoerig, Universität Düsseldorf † Francisco Varela, C.R.E.A., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Volume 46 Narrative Intelligence Edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers
Narrative Intelligence Edited by
Michael Mateas Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Phoebe Sengers Cornell University, Ithaca
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Narrative Intelligence / edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 46) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects. I. Mateas, Michael. II. Sengers, Phoebe. III. Series. BF456.N37 N37 2002 153-dc21 isbn 90 272 5171 1 (Eur.) / 1 58811 273 X (US) (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 90 272 5172 X (Eur.) / 1 58811 274 8 (US) (Pb; alk. paper)
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Chapter 1 Narrative Intelligence 1 Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers Chapter 2 A brief overview of the Narrative In