Ask HN: Compsci as the overlap between mathematics and storytelling?

3 points by azhu 5 years ago | 3 comments

Hey there HN, does anyone know of any research in this area?

I don't. Can you expand a bit?

azhu 5 years ago | |

Events lately have encouraged me to consider the nature of narrative, and the phenomenon of how human society collectively synthesizes meaning out of data. I wonder if there is any formalized research into how computer science concepts may model this. I've also long held feelings that compsci and information theory may reveal a solid theory of everything, including conscious experience and I wonder if anyone has seriously chased up that line of curiosity.

hackermailman 5 years ago | | |

Patrick Winston of MIT ai lab fame was heavily involved in story telling research, look up papers/every talk he gave on ocw or youtube http://m.nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-storytelling-computer