Stories as mental representations of an agent’s subjective world: A structural overview

Akimoto, Taisuke

doi:10.1016/j.bica.2018.07.003

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“…An agent interacts with an environment based on a story. This idea is rooted in our previous consideration of the structure of an agent's subjective world while interacting with an environment [15]. A story for interacting with an environment can be explained through the following two perspectives:…”

Section: Interaction With An Environment By Generating a Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With respect to the manner of generation, there are stories based on an agent's own experiences (experience-based stories), imaginative power (imagined stories), and interpretation or comprehension of others' narratives (narrative-mediated stories). A more systematic description of structural properties and functions of an agent's mental story are presented in our previous study [15]. From a perspective of computational knowledge representation, a story itself forms only a relational structure of concrete events and entities.…”

Section: Mentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a wellorganized story, for example, a small change in a story's part may cause incoherence in the story's whole structure or the lack of contextual coherence over the course of its events. Based on an extensional reinterpretation of our hierarchical graph model of multidimensional narrative structure [20] and a structural conception of an agent's subjective world [15], we arrange general structural properties of a story as follows ( Figure 5 illustrates these notions):…”

Section: Structural Complexity Of a Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is relevant to the ability to imagine others' mental states, known as the theory of mind. From a structural perspective, an imagined mental story about another person is represented as a nesting of stories ("a story within a story") [15].…”

Section: Contextual Actions: Associations Of Events and Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emergentist View on Generative Narrative Cognition: Considering Principles of the Self-Organization of Mental Stories

Akimoto

2018

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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We consider the essence of human intelligence to be the ability to mentally (internally) construct a world in the form of stories through interactions with external environments. Understanding the principles of this mechanism is vital for realizing a humanlike and autonomous artificial intelligence, but there are extremely complex problems involved. From this perspective, we propose a conceptual-level theory for the computational modeling of generative narrative cognition. Our basic idea can be described as follows: stories are representational elements forming an agent's mental world and are also living objects that have the power of self-organization. In this study, we develop this idea by discussing the complexities of the internal structure of a story and the organizational structure of a mental world. In particular, we classify the principles of the self-organization of a mental world into five types of generative actions, i.e., connective, hierarchical, contextual, gathering, and adaptive. An integrative cognition is explained with these generative actions in the form of a distributed multiagent system of stories.

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Section: Interaction With An Environment By Generating a Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mentalmentioning

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Section: Structural Complexity Of a Storymentioning

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Section: Contextual Actions: Associations Of Events and Statesmentioning

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