[azhu]

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]

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