10:30PM
"I call to the kitten and it looks up. I have sent it a
message which it has received by its sensory organs,
and which it registers in action. The kitten is hungry
and lets out a pitiful wail. This time it is the sender of
a message. The kitten bats at a swinging spool. The
spool swings to its left, and the kitten catches it with
its left paw. This time messages of a very complicated
nature are both sent and received within the kitten's
own nervous system through certain nerve end-bodies
in its joints, muscles, and tendons; and by means of
nervous messages sent by these organs, the animal is
aware of the actual position and tensions of its tissues.
It is only through these organs that anything like a
manual skill is possible."
- Wiener N., "The Human use of Human Beings"
Animal is aware of professor Wiener:
