The Genealogy of AI according to Dennis Yi Denken: From Narrative to Ethics

The text analyzes the evolution of artificial intelligence through the prism of narrative structures and formal linguistics. The author traces the transition from Vladimir Propp's Russian formalism and his morphology of the folk tale to modern computational systems such as TALE-SPIN. A key point is the epistemological shift: treating narration not as a literary work, but as a system of rules, functions, and relations upon which mathematical operations can be performed. The influence of Ferdinand de Saussure's structuralism and Claude Lévi-Strauss reveals the drive to discover a universal 'grammar of culture.' This systemic approach to language and myth became the foundation for later event modeling in AI, enabling the separation of variable content from stable functional structure.