Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:41:27 -0400
From: Bill Benzon <bbenzon@meta4inc.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Associative learning versus imitation - JoM Article
Mario Vaneechoutte wrote:
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>
> No, intentionality is not the problem. Simply: if this imitation by babies is a fact, how comes
> they can, while animals are thought not.
What makes this an interesting question, of course, is the "animals are thought not" clause. I
wonder if anyone has looked for this kind of behavior in the interaction of ape infants with their
mothers? Of if any human has tried to elicit this behavior from ape infants.
Bill B
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