A near-perfect mimetic association between a mecopteran insect species and a ginkgoalean plant species from the late Middle Jurassic of northeastern China recently has been discovered. The association stems from a case of mixed identity between a particular plant and an insect in the laboratory and the field. This confusion is explained as a case of leaf mimesis, wherein the appearance of the m...

I argue that an evolutionary adaptation for bodily mimesis, the volitional use of the body as a representational devise, is the “small difference” that gave rise to unique and yet pre-linguistic features of humanity such as (over)imitation, pedagogy, intentional communication and the possibility of a cumulative, representational culture. Furthermore, it is this that made the evolution of langua...

Aristoteles, müstakil olarak sanata dair yazdığı tek eseri olan Poetika’da sanatın bütünüyle mimesis olduğunu ifade etmiştir. Bu nedenle kavramı Aristoteles’in sanat felsefesinin temel kavramıdır. Mimesis, kelime anlamının çağrıştırdığının aksine taklit ya da tasvirden ibaret değildir. Aristotelesçi sistemde mimesis, yaratmayla alakalı bir kavramdır ve doğanın yarım bıraktığını tamamlama anlamı...

The relation between games and simulations can be profitably investigated by combining ontological tools and recent neurological findings. Neurology shows that simulations are connected to fiction or to reality by a suspension of disbelief or alternatively a suspension of belief, and ontological categories of Mimesis (simulation of an event or an object) and Catharsis (simulation of the experie...

This study contributes to the literature on Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure (CSED hereafter) in the developing countries by exploring various influential factors for CSED and grouping them into three categories: normative, interest, and company groups (Solomon and Lewis 2002). These categories can create normative, coercive, and mimetic pressure respectively for a company to adapt...