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I found this layin on my kitchen floor today... what item are these instructions for.???

Welcome to the forums.

In any case while it's not compulsory to do so, feel free to say "Hi I'm a new member." either here in this thread or this sub-forum in General. 
Doing so will be a great icebreaker between new members and old alike.

 

(TBA, I will add a list of useful things for new members to look at or know how to get to here in the future.
While current members might think this a bit late, I'm in the process of streamlining new members to the forum and this is one potential stop.)

http://hubpages.com/hub/your-second-brai...your-heart

"A second brain in the heart is now much more than a hypothesis. Prominent medical expert like Doctor Maurice Renard and others discovered that that recipients of heart transplants are inheriting donors' memories and consequently report huge changes in their tastes, their personality, and, most extraordinarily, in their emotional memories. Today new science is testing the theory that the heart is involved in our feelings. So what have they discovered so far?"

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."

Is this quote of Wittgenstein's really plausible?

What implications does this statement have for awareness in animals that lack language? If they lack words, how can they know anything? (My dog, now sadly deceased, certainly seemed to know where to find her food bowl.)

Does it imply that the many kinds of supposedly ineffable experience and knowing are impossible? These range from mystical experiences, through aesthetic experiences, to knowing what the color red looks like and what love or fear feel like.

(Given the richness and texture of my experience, I wonder how much of it I could ever put into words.)

Last week's round of artilect phobia:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Elon-Mu...id/599915/

"I don't think anyone realizes how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing. Particularly if involved in recursive self-improvement ... and its utility function is something that's detrimental to humanity, then it will have a very bad effect," Musk, speaking at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, said....

http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-finds

"...The Antikythera wreck was first discovered in 1900 by sponge divers who were blown off course by a storm. They subsequently recovered a spectacular haul of ancient treasure including bronze and marble statues, jewellery, furniture, luxury glassware, and the surprisingly complex Antikythera Mechanism. But they were forced to end their mission at the 55-meter-deep site after one diver died of the bends and two were paralyzed. Ever since, archaeologists have wondered if more treasure remains buried beneath the sea bed.

Now a team of international archaeologists including Brendan Foley of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Theotokis Theodoulou of the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities have returned to the treacherous site using state-of-the-art technology...." WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2...102672.htm

"A lot of people used to believe that something special happened in Europe and this is where humans became truly modern," says Aubert, who is the lead author on a paper appearing today in the journal Nature. He says until now cave paintings at El Castillo in Spain were accepted as the oldest reliably dated rock art -- at around 41,000 years old. But the story has now changed with Aubert and colleagues' dating of 12 hand stencils and two animal paintings that appear in big limestone caves at Maros, Sulawesi. "Now we can say that modern humans were making cave paintings in Southeast Asia as well, 40,000 years ago," says Aubert.

Greek Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than thought, new evidence suggests

"While historical chronologies traditionally place the end of the Greek Bronze Age at around 1025 BCE, this latest research suggests a date 70 to 100 years earlier....