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Date Posted: 19:35:57 04/20/08 Sun
Author: JD Reed
Subject: Biological Basis for Mimesis

We've established the ideas that desire is imitative and that imitation is something that is inherently human. We've really just dealt with psyhcological and behavioral ways in which to see the presence of mimesis, yet there is a biological basis for mimesis as well. In humans (more so in babies than grown adults) and chimpanzees especially we see the presence of mirror neurons, with which they are able to watch something happen or someone (or some animal) do something and imitate that occurrence. These mirror neurons are the basis for much learning that occurs. I dont know if I am just beating a dead horse, I just think that this sort of lends a weight to mimeticism by anchoring it in the physical world in a way.

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