# Narrative as a Dynamical System

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06600 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.06600/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Sep 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1301.3781/) (2013)
- [Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.4546/) (2013)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [The Dynamical Principles of Storytelling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.07797/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

There is increasing evidence that human activity in general, and narrative in particular, can be treated as a dynamical system in the physics sense; a system whose evolution is described by an action integral, such that the average of all possible paths from point A to point B is given by the extremum of the action. We create by construction three such paths by averaging about 500 different narratives, and we show that the average path is consistent with an action principle.