About Stereotext

The term stereotext describes a single text with two meanings which when viewed in concert form a third, holographic text.

The term grew out of more than two decades of research into Herman Melville's Moby-Dick—specifically, the discovery of a second, empirically verifiable text inside the novel, confirmed against primary materials.

The wonder of the stereotext is that this patently literary discovery suggests practical applications to the fields of AI, cognitive science, and information theory. And all hidden in a dark and mythic novel now nearly two centuries old.