Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of mimicability.
Although the distribution of data sets is still parallel to the decision thresholds, indicating that FLMP can still mimic LIM, they are shifted away from the decision criteria, indicating that the extent of the mimickability has been substantially reduced.
2003, Daniel J. Navarro, In Jae Myung, Mark A. Pitt, Woojae Kim, “Global Model Analysis by Landscaping”, in Richard Alterman, David Kirsh, editors, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society […], Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2017, →ISBN2 more examples
Just as action and symboling can be mimicked, so can anger. But unlike them, when anger is mimicked it isn’t anger—it isn’t the emotion, only the action or the symbolic. This again shows how mimickability is inherent in symboling and action, but inherently impossible for emotion.
1973, Eugene T[ovio] Gendlin, “A Phenomenology of Emotions: Anger”, in David Carr, Edward S. Casey, editors, Explorations in Phenomenology […] (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; 4), The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, part 4 (Emotions, Art, and Existence), page 392When it comes to explain how specific, directly observable and mimickable abilities - like speech and like making tools - can be selected, group selection becomes important enough to counteract or overwhelm natural selection, because new findings of individuals will be taken over by others, whatever their genes (see 3.2.3). For the same reason of mimickability, it is unlikely that mimickable behaviours will lead to higher social rank (3.2.4).
1998, Mario Vaneechoutte, John R[obert] Skoyles, “The memetic origin of language: modern humans as musical primates”, in Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, volume 2, Manchester: Centre for Policy Modelling, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 May 2004
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