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Re: Cat Gap

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I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat. I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream where my body actually changed shape. Being loved just for existing seems like a pretty solid evolutionary strategy.

> I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat If you haven't already, read "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", one of the Sandman stories. It was also adapted by Netflix as the last episode of season 1 of The Sandman.

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Re: Cat Gap

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was a minor plot point in that one black mirror episode with the robots on a tourism trip to Earth, lol

You mean Love, Death and Robots?

I'm sorry, yes, you're right. I misremembered which series I was thinking about.

Re: Cat Gap

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I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat. I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream where my body actually changed shape. Being loved just for existing seems like a pretty solid evolutionary strategy.

> I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat If you haven't already, read "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", one of the Sandman stories. It was also adapted by Netflix as the last episode of season 1 of The Sandman.

Thanks — I’ll read it tonight and become a cat in my sleep. Though I suppose I’ll need Scheherazade to guide me there first.

Re: Cat Gap

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I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat. I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream where my body actually changed shape. Being loved just for existing seems like a pretty solid evolutionary strategy.

Also helps if you are aided by a microbe for your food sources (mice and humans) that rewires their brain to be more attracted to cats.

Re: Cat Gap

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I once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would continue to serve us. Then I had a humorous thought - what if this already happened, i.e. cats were superintelligent, invented humans to serve them and then they had no need for their own intelligence.

a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
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