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Why Method Enables Infinitely Customizable Measurement, from a follow-up paper building on recent findings. Ultimately, the pay-off is in method, rather than contributing to the trivia of discussion point concerning even two seminal narratives in Cold War and Beyond American science fiction. In particular, I consider Herbert's Dune sage and Octavia Butler's Parable duo set.
Corpora as Bodies of Knowledge, or Epistemologies in Action
All together, the test-set passages of theological commentary comprise about 22,400 words, while its training set counterpart formed by eschatologically themed passages in two sets of serialized speculative fictions sum to 32,270 words. My sole concerns are establishing how these very different depictions of collapse may relate in an eschatological semantic space. If that relation index is high, despite the differences of expression across the worlds depicted so differently, then the components of my training set suggest that the psycho-social construct of resilience must be at play in the interpretation of present events in two distinct depictions of collapse, if not also in anticipation of a better to come to be revealed only in a time to come. My second hypothesis, then, is this: If a moderate or greater strength of semantic similarity exists between the training set comprised by literary passages enacting eschatological expectations and that formed by the ontological and epistemological standards of interpretation adopted generally by the Patristics, then those dual strands of dramatization and commentary point toward a dominating presence of discourse weaving two different but complementary strands of approaching the noumenality of an eschaton in which the Creator entirely absorbs the creation.
By dominating I mean a discourse larger than its various expressions across domains as different as sacramemtal theology and archetypally, mimetically commenting on human motivation in literary criticism. This sense of domination recalls the Carroll (1993) account of hierarchical intelligence. That human quality that we believe is present but which can only be discerned by the proxy of present observations underlying the presence of that quality (e.g., intelligence) by necessity dominates multiple domains because its expression in ideation v. narrative are so different. Accordingly, if there is a discourse-level discerning capacity in machine learning leveraged in tandem with human supervision of text of selection, then literary criticism itself may enter an era in which each semantic measurement study serves as a possible baseline of human conduct that could be unobtrusively observed in the general population of people going about the many tasks of their day. Just as importantly, each study in literary motivation and conduct can be said to be a test of one expectation or another. Entirely possible is the launch of evidence-driven theoretical inquiry about human motivation as that is dramatized in literature. Simultaneously, such may represent the method by which humanities investigators may weigh in on the estimation and measurement of human intelligence.
Rather than seeking to summit the dominating peak of a region, this psychometric sensitivity to test use as revealed in the ongoing arguing validity argument about the utility of a test is a circumnavigation of that peak that we can never entirely summit because its way is noumenal. At best we can approximate a tenuous step and then validate our insights in the interplay of sense and sensibility in an entirely different corpus of theological assertions attesting to a reality beyond human perception, yet one which one day will bring a radical coherence to all of the acts of God Looking On within human history.
More generally, we can begin considering literary phenomena as delivering revelations via the thousands of parables of human motivation we can examine from multiple consensus-driven perspectives formed by so many interpretive communities. Such constitute the micro-tasks that approximate a distinct form of intelligence that may be imitated by a machine. If a mind can be represented by a set of verbal correspondences to a construct in action (e.g., buy-in), then that mind can be brought to deliberate the semantic similarities of another set of texts framing that topography- defining summit from another perspective. Statements of similarity, and dissimilarity, then can be prompted by a score. That score enfolds ontologies, or domain-driven dictionaries of semantically clustered keywords, and the purpose of bringing together any given group of texts.