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Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence
Contributor(s): Schank, Roger (Author), Morson, Gary Saul (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0810113139     ISBN-13: 9780810113138
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1995
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Annotation: How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this pathbreaking study by an expert on learning and computers, Roger C. Schank argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence, which consists largely of applying old situations - and our narratives of them - to new situations in less than obvious ways. To design smart machines, Schank therefore investigated how people use narratives and stories, the nature and function of those narratives, and the connection of intelligence to both telling and listening. As Schank explains, "We need to tell someone else a story that describes our experiences because the process of creating the story also creates the memory structure that will contain the gist of the story for the rest of our lives. Talking is remembering". This first paperback edition includes an illuminating foreword by Gary Saul Morson.
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 153
LCCN: 95043665
Series: Rethinking Theory (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.03" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 253 pages
 
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How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this pathbreaking study by an expert on learning and computers, Roger C. Schank argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence, which consists largely of applying old situations, and our narratives of them, to new situations in less than obvious ways.