Table Of ContentRichard Walsh · Susan Stepney Editors
Narrating
Complexity
Narrating Complexity
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Richard Walsh Susan Stepney
Editors
Narrating Complexity
Editors
RichardWalsh SusanStepney
DepartmentofEnglishandRelated DepartmentofComputerScience
Literature UniversityofYork
UniversityofYork York,UK
York,UK
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Contents
PartI SceneSetting
1 IntroductionandOverview:Who,What,Why. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
RichardWalshandSusanStepney
2 NarrativeTheoryforComplexityScientists. . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. 11
RichardWalsh
3 ComplexSystemsforNarrativeTheorists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SusanStepney
PartII ContributedEssays
4 WhenRobotsTellEachOtherStories:TheEmergence
ofArtificialFiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
AlanF.T.Winfield
5 SenseandWonder:ComplexityandtheLimits
ofNarrativeUnderstanding. . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . .. 49
RichardWalsh
6 DiscussionandComment(SenseandWonder). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AdamLivelyandRichardWalsh
7 ASimpleStoryofaComplexMind?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
MerjaPolvinen
8 DiscussionandComment(ASimpleStoryofaComplexMind?). . . 81
MarcoBernini,SusanStepney,andMerjaPolvinen
9 Closure,ObservationandCoupling:OnNarrative
andAutopoiesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
AdamLively
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10 LookingatNarrativeasaComplexSystem:TheProteus
Principle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
FedericoPianzola
11 NarrativeExperiencesofHistoryandComplexSystems. . . . . . . . . 123
RomanaTurina
12 Three-WayDialogue(Closure,Proteus,History). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
AdamLively,FedericoPianzola,andRomanaTurina
13 (Gardening)Gardening:ARelationalFrameworkforComplex
ThinkingAboutComplexSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
LeoCavesandAnaTeixeiradeMelo
14 DiscussionandComment(GardeningGardening). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
LeoCaves,AnaTeixeiradeMelo,andRichardWalsh
15 TheSoftwareGarden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
JulianF.Miller
16 EmergentCausalityinComplexFilmsandComplexSystems. . . . . 213
MariaPoulaki
17 NarrativeandCognitiveModelling:InsightsfromBeckett
ExploringMind’sComplexity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
MarcoBernini
18 NarrativesforDrugDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
JamesBownandAlexeyGoltsov
19 TimeWillTell:NarrativeExpressionsofTimeinaComplex
World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
LeoCaves,AnaTeixeiradeMelo,SusanStepney,
andEmmaUprichard
20 DiscussionandComment(TimeWillTell). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
RichardWalsh,LeoCaves,AnaTeixeiradeMelo,SusanStepney,
andEmmaUprichard
21 Periodisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
JasonEdwards
PartIII AnalysisandSynthesis
22 CommentaryonContributions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
RichardWalshandSusanStepney
23 FromSimplextoComplexNarrative?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
SusanStepneyandRichardWalsh
Contributors
MarcoBernini DepartmentofEnglishStudies,DurhamUniversity,Durham,UK
JamesBown SchoolofDesignandInformaticsandSchoolofScience,Engineering
andTechnology,AbertayUniversity,Dundee,UK
Leo Caves York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of
York,York,UK
AnaTeixeiradeMelo CentreforSocialStudies,UniversityofCoimbra,Coimbra,
Portugal
JasonEdwards DepartmentofHistoryofArt,UniversityofYork,York,UK
AlexeyGoltsov SchoolofScience,Engineering&Technology,AbertayUniversity,
Dundee,UK
AdamLively DepartmentofMedia,MiddlesexUniversity,London,UK
JulianMiller DepartmentofElectronicEngineering,UniversityofYork,York,UK
Federico Pianzola Department of Human Sciences for Education, University of
Milan-Bicocca,Milan,Italy
MariaPoulaki DepartmentofMusicandMedia,UniversityofSurrey,Guildford,UK
MerjaPolvinen DepartmentofModernLanguages,UniversityofHelsinki,Helsinki,
Finland
SusanStepney DepartmentofComputerScience,UniversityofYork,York,UK
YorkCross-disciplinaryCentreforSystemsAnalysis,UniversityofYork,York,UK
RomanaTurina DepartmentofTheatre,FilmandTelevision,UniversityofYork,
York,UK
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Emma Uprichard Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of
Warwick,Warwick,UK
RichardWalsh DepartmentofEnglishandRelatedLiterature,UniversityofYork,
York,UK
InterdisciplinaryCentreforNarrativeStudies,UniversityofYork,York,UK
Alan F. T. Winfield Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of
England,Bristol,UK
Part I
Scene Setting
2 PartI SceneSetting
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