# Storytelling Machines Could Learn by Immersion by Jonathan Gottschall > "Aspiring writers are told to immerse themselves in great stories to gradually develop a deep, not necessarily conscious, sense for how they work." > **— Jonathan Gottschall**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [The Rise of Storytelling Machines](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26068) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Jonathan Gottschall; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI Narrative Systems|AI Narrative Systems]] - [[wiki/Narrative Intelligence|Narrative Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Generative AI|Generative AI]] - [[wiki/Causal Story Capture|Causal Story Capture]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Aspiring writers are told to immerse themselves in great stories to gradually develop a deep, not necessarily conscious, sense for how they work." — Jonathan Gottschall, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jonathan-gottschall-storytelling-machines-learn-by-immersion ```