As my friend Jacob once said, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then plagiarism is the sincerest form of imitation.
However, TrapCrunch is the most elaborate form of imitation we've seen so far.
The Franciscans held this view, and maintained that their own practices were a special form of "imitation of Christ".
In his Della poetica (Aguzzi-Barbagli 1961-1971) hevaluateded and rejected the Stagirite's analysis of poetry as a form of imitation, seeking to replace it with his own view, influenced at least in part by Platonic sources (Bolzoni 1980, 1983; Spedicati 1986).
Finally, the human capacity to build on prior innovations and transmit cultural knowledge is often linguistically mediated, and apes and dolphins may have communication systems with far more limited expressive potential, making it impossible to move beyond simple copying and adopt the deferred form of imitation that we call instruction.
"This sampling and re-framing of existing material became the shape of the design output itself, so the project's process was actually a form of imitation of the subject matter," Picardi explains.
Proof of learning, in the form of imitation, comes later in ontogeny (plastic song stage).
Factors that contribute to cultural transmission may be 'taught' from parents to their offspring in the form of imitation, customs or preferences, and have direct effects on behavioural phenotypes through processes of social learning or modelling.
This is a harmful form of imitation that simply results in a clone and avoids a thoughtful and meaningful exercise in character building.
As we engage in more advanced forms of mimêsis, imitation gives way to representation and depiction, where we need not be regarded as attempting to copy anyone or anything in any narrow sense of the term.
