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> do any of these processes where distinct identifiabe
> change is what gives these forms meaning constitute processes of
> replication?
Not if they require an animator, working to a storyboard. However I
think if you put a frame of Mickey Mouse on a photocopier and used that
to generate successive frames, each a copy of the last, you'd soon see
something - phenotypic inheritance (because there's no genotype) just
like for memes. You could even stretch it to have a selection process
for similarity to the original, or select for something else (bear with
me - I know the photocopier example is weak because you'll end up with a
black sheet eventually but I think it captures something of what I was
on about).
You could easily produce an (apparently) unchanging animation of a
static object without breaking the definition of what constitutes an
animation...
Incidentally has everyone seen the fun stuff that happens when you point
a video camera at its own monitor - very cool!
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