What's The Point?

Jenny's Notes

• The first storyteller of the tribe
• How stories shaped the tribe
• How stories have evolved into today's storytelling
• Discrete world vs. continuous world
• In general, humans are viewing the world as discrete, to computationally reduce complexity.
• Our stories have evolved the complexity of language, and people are trying to understand it.
• Can we make a machine that illuminates meaning about our world?
• Why is Calvino so happy about this?
• Now, what about reading?
• Why is Calvino so happy about this? (cont.)
• Myth is the repetitive force that makes us reexamine a fable or story.
• Unspoken myths as ghosts of the unconscious
• Combinatorial play as a ghost-hunting process
• Fables and stories are always being transformed (literature = new literary events)
• Literature is a labyrinth: you won't ever really know the intended meaning of a piece of literature