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30 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Here's @vgr reflecting on the (computational) asymmetry between recognising a valid narrative structure, and generating an interesting story that is so validated. There's a couple recent threads in which I've talked about this in logical/computational terms, so I'll link below.
1. A thread responding to @cstross in which I discuss the how computational asymmetries articulate the aesthetic distinction between taste and inspiration:
2. A very brief description of @chrisamaphone's work and how it articulates this difference between generation/validation in precise terms:
3. A brief thread about #Coupanon, considering the sense in which narratives are (ana)logical structures that provide schematics for constructing/validating explanatory/predictive models:
4. Some much more abstract thoughts about dialectics (as much Socrates/Plato as Hegel) and ludics (which emerges from Girard's work on linear logic:
5. And some more concrete thoughts trying to demystify the way in which Hegel uses such (dia)logical structures as narrative schema for building explanatory historical models:
I hope someone gets something out of this little narrative synthesis. 🖖

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