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3	The Nature of Narrative
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5	Narrative/narration can also be a feature of a text otherwise technically defined as non-narrative: e.g., drama Richard II: narration of what King Henry said about Richard, from Exton’s perspective:
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10	Posthumanity—Volatile Bodies First, the posthuman view privileges informational pattern over material instantiation, so that embodiment in a biological substrate is seen as an accident of history rather than an inevitability of life. Second, the posthuman view considers consciousness, regarded as the seat of human identity in the Western tradition long before Descartes thought he was a mind thinking, as an epiphenomenon, as an evolutionary upstart trying to claim that it is the whole show when in actuality it is only a minor sideshow. Third, the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate, so that extending or replacing the body with other prostheses becomes a continuation of a process that began before we were born. Fourth, and most important, by these and other means, the posthuman view configures human being so that it can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines. In the posthuman, there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals. N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 2-3.
11	Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control Rodney Brooks discusses the future of this merger of (nanoscale) robotic technology with biotechnology: We are on a path to changing our genome in profound ways. Not simple improvements toward ideal humans as is often feared. In reality, we will have the power to manipulate our own bodies in the way we currently manipulate the design of machines. We will have the keys to our own existence. There is no need to worry about mere robots taking over from us. We will be taking over from ourselves with manipulatable body plans and capabilities easily able to match that of any robot. Rodney Brooks, Flesh and Machines, p. 236.
12	posthuman An object of technological determinism? Or…. Hybrid entity constructed through networks materially real, socially regulated, and discursively constructed? Body an interpretive frame, historically, contingently constructed along with our machines and the world they inhabit
13	Escape Narrative? How can we get the “body” back in? Discursive bodies vs embodiment
14	Frog, Where Are You? Ability to tell stories: Frog, Where Are You—24 page picture book Children and adults are asked to represent the (pictorially presented) characters linguistically, and relate them in terms of their actions across time and space in the form of a cohesive/coherent narrative. References did not necessarily "originate" from the pictures: Narrators of the picture story - often - chose to override a pictorially presented facial expression of one of the characters with a reference to the "opposite" emotion. For instance, a boy, whose face was obviously expressing anger, and who was linguistically referred to as angry when the picture was presented as a single, isolated picture, was referred to as happy (by the same subject three minutes later) when referring to this picture in the narrating activity of establishing the Frog, Where Are You? story
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17	Neurophilosophy The normal mind is not beautifully unified, but rather a problematically yoked-together bundle of partly autonomous systems. All parts of the mind are not equally accessible to each other at all times. These modules or systems sometimes have internal communication problems which they solve by various ingenious and devious routes. If this is true (and I think it is), it may provide us with an answer to a most puzzling question about conscious thought: what good is it? No one has ever seen a self. "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.... If anyone, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued, which he calls himself; though I am certain there is no such principle in me." David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, I, IV, sec. 6.
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