Meaning of mimickability | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of mimicability.

alt-of, alternative, uncountable

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.”

“When 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).”

“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.”

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