I think it is debatable whether imitation is choice, maybe some
kind of continuum that maggie's graph shows.
Rats imitating other rat's bar presses or pigeons imitating
pecking of other pigeons is at one end of the continuum and
a child playing house and imitating mom is at the other
>There is a lot evidence of pigeons imitating in the animal lit.
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>>Point A is where ape first raised his head, looked around and thought, whoa,
>>i am different, i am an individual, then having realized this looked back
>>down and continued behaving the same as all the other apes for lack of the
>>ability to have a better idea. This is when immitation begins, because
>>immitation is a choice, it is an intellectual idea and other
>>non-intellectual species cannot immitate, they only act according to social
>>Quality, which happens to line them up with everyone else. >
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