CMST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michelle Obama, Mimesis, Mirror Neuron
13 Sep 2016
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Hominisation: it"s us being a human, a time of modern humans becoming a human being. Archaic sacred (the religious animal: religion is the root of culture, human beings are the religious animal, to raise awareness of this. Mimetic emotion in social sciences (emotional cotangent: mirroring emotion laughter is contagious - if someone laughs, then a lot of people laugh. External mediation (nonrivalrous imitation) model is too far from the subject either socially or in time/space. Mimetic model would be michelle obama or napol on, both are too far from me. Internal mediation (rivalrous imitation) model is close to the subject socially and in time/space. Outside of social sphere: rivalry and competition is inherently involving imitation. Mimetic contagion: emotional contagion, is the contagion of emotion but we can think of it as how some sort of feeling swell through the crowd during a concert people imitating the artist.
