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Animal cognition (while way out of my wheelhouse) is totally fascinating to me.
Without words, a common language, the overlap could be so wildly over'd or under'd in what's actually going on, eh?
I love the frame of reference that says, us (humans), while human, are also mostly not "even even human too". There's so much overlap we share with the animals at the mammalian, then reptilian shared machinery in our nervous systems - and that's way more than the part that's "human". Modulo the <Talkey Talkey> / <Thinky Thinky> late stage bits!
"Do they get any sense of what’s going on - the cause and effect of using a tool, the fact that they’re hurtling across the sky, etc."
Obviously I dunno, but my guess would be that almost the entire "human/systems" level aspects of it are over the cat's head (miss the point) but would thrive.
As Kay framed it in a related idea, the cat would "find it simple and understandable, but would miss the point"*
*ref:https://youtu.be/Eg_ToU7m1MI?si=0uq6CZbM2-pYymbW&t=39 1 reply
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