Of Behavioral Learning

I like resorting to the thought that if only the literal idea is copied, its reproduction is flawed in some way. And if the idea behind them is used by someone else, I can only be happy with that, since that'd be a sign of getting eloquent enough, which is my goal here.

And for me that's what influence means, to learn the idea behind instead of literal body of work. It's learning the undercurrent style of the work instead of using the work itself. For instance, the Indiana Jones movies are based on the behavior of adventure series that inspired them. So much that it's not considered a copy but an addition to the genre. So one can understand the undercurrent behavior influencing events in terror and horror movies. Or what made the ships in the original Star Wars trilogy look so cool, instead of copying surface elements.

This concept is clearly analogous to the Behavioral Line. When one understands the patterns and undercurrent characteristics and ideas of any artstyle, they are able to understand the flow and create works that add to the style. It also helps intersemiotic translation, since one's paying attention to the ideology traveling in the undercurrent and that can surface in different modalities of semiotics.