1. The Dynamical Principles of Storytelling
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Doxas, Isidoros, Meiss, James, Bottone, Steven, Strelich, Tom, Plummer, Andrew, Breland, Adrienne, Dennis, Simon, Garvin-Doxas, Kathy, and Klymkowsky, Michael
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Computer Science - Computation and Language - Abstract
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. When the order of the paragraphs is shuffled, the average no longer exhibits this property. The findings show that there is a preferential direction we take in semantic space when starting a story, possibly related to a common Western storytelling tradition as implied by Aristotle in Poetics., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
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- 2023