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and I'm reminded of this xkcd about the pattern of lights:

https://xkcd.com/722/





I've often thought how my cat must think I am insane. I sit in from of a medium-sized glowing rectangle, I occasionally look at a small glowing rectangle, then in the evening stare at a really large glowing rectangle.

Other options are :

1) Cats do not really think that much about us at all, except for thoughts like - "oh no! it's about to attack! wait no, it's fine, relax..." or "will it feed me if I shout at it?" or "it's sitting down, perhaps I feel like sitting on it"

2) Their thoughts about us revolve around our weird lack of fur, the strange way we never clean ourselves by licking, and how bad we are at catching small animals to eat.


>our weird lack of fur, the strange way we never clean ourselves by licking, and how bad we are at catching small animals to eat.

Or some of us with our tail on backwards.


I’ve thought the same about our dogs when we stare for hours at “the light box.”

I wonder if it’s anything like what I feel when I watch them sniff the same bush for a seemingly endless amount of time like it’s the most interesting thing in the world.




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