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...physical fabric of the building, the contents the furnishings, paintings, textiles have been rescued, largely certainly from the ground floor, where most of the historic contents shown to the public were. So when they made the decision to go back to the condition of the house on the day before the fire, they were doing that in order to recreate the right context for those...

...physical pain. The robots or ‘replicants’ in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner can feel pain and start to develop emotions after building up a bank of life experiences – with disastrous results. Interestingly, however, these ‘replicants’ are made out of organic materials, they are biological robots, and are only distinguishable from humans by sophisticated tests....

...physical world; the voyages of exploration, expansion of trade routes and colonisation of the Americas; the new technology of printing, which allowed for the rapid dissemination of new ideas and discoveries; and the development of a humanist educational programme, based on the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and dedicated to the restoration of classical ideals...