[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[Michael Hamilton]

Craig,

On 6/1/06, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
>  [Mike]
>  > Imitation of elders must play a part, too, but imitation also
>  > requires that the imitator individuates patterns to be imitated.
>
> Mike,
> My first gloss on your post was that you had said that in order to imitate, the imitator is required to have the SAME patterns as his/her elder.  Then my Wittgensteinian point was that there was no criteria for the same pattern other than it was an imitation.
> While I'm here I want you to consider--if you haven't already--the possiblitity that an imitator's individuating patterns to be imitated is not a requirement but (sometimes? always?) an outcome of imitiation.

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. All I was suggesting
was that before the imitator can copy the pattern, he or she must
somehow notice and pick out the pattern. It is not a passive process,
because the world does not present itself to us readily-carved into
patterns.