The concept of mimesis is not very often used in the contemporary semiotic dialogue. This article introduces several views on this concept, and on the basis of these, mimesis is comprehended as a phenomenon of communication. By highlighting different semantic dimensions of the concept, mimesis is seen as being composed of phases of communication and as such, it is connected with imitation, repr...

Mimesis theory is one of the primitive skill of imitative learning, which is regarded as an origin of human intelligence because imitation is fundamental function for communication and symbol manipulation. When the mimesis is adopted as learning method for humanoids, convenience for designing full body behavior would decrease because bottom-up learning approaches from robot side and topdown tea...

In his book Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections, Burwick discusses the potential for deception of the mimetic tradition in literature and the arts, and argues that romantic literature indeed grapples with issues of mimetic representation. His interest in mimesis extends also to visual perception and visual illusions, not solely as these inform literature and the arts, but as a topic of inquiry...

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...

“Mimesis” theory focused in the cognitive science field and “mirror neurons” found in the biology field show that the behavior generation process is not independent of the behavior cognition process. The generation and cognition processes have a close relationship with each other. During the behavioral imitation period, a human being does not practice simple joint coordinate transformation, but...

It is needed for humanoid to acquire not only just a trajectory but also aim of the behavior and symbolic information during behavior development. We have proposed the mimesis system as a framework of synchronous learning model for behavior acquisition and symbol emergence. However, the motion elements which are fundamental representation of behavior have stood on the unsuitable assumption that...

How can we reconcile the conception of language as a conventional-normative semiotic system with a perception/action-based account of its structure and meaning? And why should linguistic meaning--as opposed to linguistic expression--be so closely related to motor activity and its neural underpinnings, as suggested by recent findings? A conceptual framework and evolutionary scenario building on ...

This paper examines two questions that emerged from a viewing of Hotel Pro Forma's contemporary peiformance The Algebra of Place. It questions how and why the viewer's perception altered when observing the convergence of live and mediatised peiformance, with particular reference to an altered perception oforiginal and copy. It also questions the perception ofspace, time and the per­ former's id...

This poster abstract outlines initial results from a multi-disciplinary research project called ‘the emergence of artificial culture in robot societies’ whose overall aim is to investigate the processes and mechanisms by which protocultural behaviours, better described as traditions, might emerge in a free running collective robot system. We accept, as a working hypothesis, the idea that mimesi...

the concept of diegesis (telling or recounting a story) originally appeared in plato's thesis as opposed to mimesis (showing or enacting a story). plato described diegesis as the third person style of expressing a fiction mediated by an author/narrator, whereas he proposed mimesis as the first person style of presenting a story by means of characters and actions. aristotle then applied mim...