"imitation is imagination’s most powerful path into whatever is Other than ourselves.
[It] is not mechanical reproduction, but an imaginative inhabiting of the other, which is always different because of its intersubjective betweenness.
[...] Imagining something, watching someone else do something, and doing it ourselves" (imitation) "share important neural foundations." p. 248-50
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