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Richard Walsh · Susan Stepney Editors Narrating Complexity Narrating Complexity (cid:129) Richard Walsh Susan Stepney Editors Narrating Complexity Editors RichardWalsh SusanStepney DepartmentofEnglishandRelated DepartmentofComputerScience Literature UniversityofYork UniversityofYork York,UK York,UK ISBN978-3-319-64712-8 ISBN978-3-319-64714-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64714-2 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018957452 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2018 Chapter17islicensedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttribution4.0InternationalLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Forfurtherdetailsseelicenseinformationinthechapter. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland 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 v vi Contents 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 vii viii Contributors 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 ©JulianneD.Halley,2016;usedwithpermission
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