One psychological explanation of human behavior argues that we often have no idea what we want, and hence just imitate others - welcome to mimetic theory.
Rene Girard, the French philosopher who established the theory, argued that most of our desires are metaphysical and called them mimetic because we mimic them from the people around us.
How a prototype caloric-restriction mimetic works The best-studied candidate for a caloric-restriction mimetic, 2DG (2-deoxy-D-glucose), works by interfering with the way cells process glucose.
卡路里限制模拟机制如何发生作用研究最透彻的卡路里限制替代品要 2DG(氧 D 葡萄糖),它能够影响细胞加工葡萄糖的方式。
Thanks to both postcolonial theory and to studies of travel writing, we no longer consider such representations of non-western worlds in terms of mimetic fidelity and disinterested objectivity.
But caloric-restriction projects underway in two species more closely related to humans - rhesus and squirrel monkeys - have made scientists optimistic that CR mimetics could help people.
Human beings are mimetic animals and it is out of this natural drive that poetry emerges, especially as it is first expressed in musical and linguistic improvisation.
Could such a 'caloric-restriction mimetic', as we call it, enable people to stay healthy longer, postponing age-related disorders (such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, heart disease and cancer) until very late in life?
No compound that would safely achieve the same feat in people has been found yet, but the search has been informative and has fanned hope that caloric-restriction (CR) mimetics can indeed be developed eventually.
This is extremely interesting, for if human behavior is by nature mimetic, then tragedy in particular and art in general are forms of reenactment, the repetition through action of a previous action.
Now, Socrates asks—returning explicitly to arguments about the refusal of the " double man" and the multiplicity of roles in Book III—in such mimetic activity " Is a human being of one mind? " (603c).
The claim is that the mimetic artist cannot attain to the being of the thing that is depicted, its eidos, and consequently because that which is true is only that which has being, the artwork is untrue.
It is this refusal of the double man that prepares the ground for the initial exclusion of the poet from the city, for the poet is a mimetic artist whose skill derives from imitating many kinds of things.