Narrative and Emergent Behavior
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7960108 |
|---|---|
| Autores | H Porter Abbott (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2008 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 227-244 |
| Data de publicação | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Editora | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-2007-024 |
| OpenAlex | W2152362817 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 14 |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
The difficulty of understanding emergent behavior is usually attributed to our need to see in it the operation of some kind of centralized control where there is in fact none (Keller 1985, Resnick 1994). Yet as a species, we seem to have little difficulty with complex narratives in which there is no centralized control and in which chance often plays a major role (tragedies, comedies, most novels and films). I argue that the principal reason for the incompatibility of emergent behavior with narrative understanding is its massive distribution of causal agents—a complexity of causation so acute that it disallows any perceptible chain of causation that could serve as a narrative thread. Narrative can and does play a limited role in our understanding of emergent behavior but does so only at the micro level of individual agents (the horse ancestor) and the macro level of the whole (the evolution of the horse). The perils of our weakness for narrative templates in trying to understand emergent behavior arise when understanding the internal nature of the process of emergence is critical to our choice-making behavior. This is especially the case when our health and well-being depend on emergent behaviors to which we contribute. Notable examples are the common efforts to narrativize the behaviors of the stock market and human evolution
Causal chain · Causation · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Sociology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Narrative Complexity and the Case of Pfitz
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
Climate uncertainty, social media certainty
The many complexities of video games
Lyricality, Fictionality, and Scientific Thought in Contemporary Opera
Narrative reconstruction in the Chinese translation of detective fiction in the late Qing Dynasty
Mere exposure to conspiracy theories
Hashtag narrative
Forms of life
Dynamical systems, literary theory, and the computational modelling of narrative
Model histories
Varieties of Biosocial Imagination
The Biosocial Event
The challenge of nation-building in the digital age
| Obras citantes distintas | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 13 |