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How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004)

by maxmouchet on 4/10/22, 8:41 AM with 281 comments

by krylon on 4/10/22, 11:24 AM
When I was young, we had a cat that would sit down next to me as I was sitting in front of the PC, and start meowing. I would pet her head, and she would move away, a meter or so an continue meowing until I got up and petted her again.
Step by step, she would lure me all the way to the kitchen and give me a look said that, "Now that we are here anyway, how 'bout some of that food?". A bit manipulative, I admit, but kind of clever.
Also, I suspect cats tricked humans into starting agriculture so they (the cats) would have a steady supply of mice.
by IncRnd on 4/10/22, 9:55 AM
My cat, Felix, brought his iPad pro from the other room, logged into HN (because Felix doesn't trust persistent logins), read the article to me, then discussed the implications before demanding I open the door for him, because he is a cat and doesn't want to open the door himself.
by unfocussed_mike on 4/10/22, 1:03 PM
I am one of those people who had one view before a youtube video and another view after.
We had cats when I was a kid, and I would observe that cats are very good at tracking prey, at opening doors or at getting humans to open them, at figuring out who is the boss, and at bearing very, very long term grudges, but otherwise they operate in a system where the world revolves around them (apparently quite literally in terms of how they map the world).
This utility-focussed view of the world means they always get fed, but it also leads them to get stuck when exploring -- never paying attention to the fact that the neighbour's garage door does not just open, it also closes, for example!
So I have tended to see them as well-optimised, intelligent, but not necessarily "bright".
But the cat-mirror-ears video -- where a cat sees a reflection in a mirror, apparently understands that it is its own reflection and then... realises it has ears... that changed my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE2Sgg8hI8
There is another "cat theory of mind" video where a mother cat purposefully and deliberately retrieves an object its kitten wants to play with, that scientists have talked about on twitter, but I can't find it.
A friend of mine has a cat that learned to play fetch as a kitten and never stopped playing. So unusual.
by coward123 on 4/10/22, 3:39 PM
I have a cat who will deliberately create a diversion so that she can steal my chair. I know when she’s doing it, but I go along anyway because it’s fun. The first time I saw her do this, it involved pushing the lift button on the motorized standing desk. I stood up, she jumped into my seat. She does similar tricks with other chairs around the house.
by Stratoscope on 4/10/22, 10:07 AM
For anyone who wonders if cats are intelligent, I submit for your consideration Tulie and Sephie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rROBUDPYI
I was playing with them with a bird wand toy and then I wanted to get back to work. So I wedged the toy's handle in the chair.
Tulie had studied how I operated the toy, and she decided to work it herself to keep Sephie entertained.
At one point the feathers got stuck on the chair, and Tulie figured out how to unstick them!
Then the dogs came by to get some water, and the cats were like "nothing to see here, move along now."
And then with the dogs out of the way, they got back to business.
by blacklion on 4/10/22, 11:10 AM
My mother has degree in behavioral biology (though rather old one, she got diploma in 1980, in USSR), and her first job after university was "surgically intrusive experiments to assess learning and intelligence" in cats. She abandoned this work after half a year, because she thinks it was too cruel to animals. Her career was ruined, as in USSR you was unable to easily quit your job in first 3 years after university, you have to work for 3 years on assigned job, to "pay out" your education. As result all her subsequent jobs were low-wage ones, like typist, nurse, and sometimes cleaner or dishwasher. Only after the fall of USSR my father started successful software business (we didn't know word "start-up" till much later) which allows my mother to not work anymore.
But as far as I know, she never regret her decision.
by rpmisms on 4/10/22, 2:53 PM
I currently own the stupidest cat I've ever seen, but I previously had a very clever cat that I got from my in-laws. It could obey commands, figure out patterns, etc.
However, my dog is orders of magnitude smarter, and has taught herself:
- Lying. She barks "at the mailman" about 10 minutes before he arrives, so I'll put her out when he's in the area
- Mirrors. She understands that her reflection is only a reflection, and will look at herself to see if her fur is ruffled on her hindquarters
- Language. Dogs are often taught to communicate with buttons that trigger a word. The conventional wisdom is that it takes a dog about a week to learn to use them. She taught herself 5 separate buttons in 20 minutes, and uses them to this day, chaining them together to express her thoughts remarkably clearly. For example, she used "no" + "time for bed" in the morning when I hadn't refilled her water yet.
But that's why dogs are so popular: they're calibrated to our psyche. They understand human gestures incredibly well.
by paganel on 4/10/22, 11:27 AM
We have a cat and a border collie, we love them both to the moon and back. That said, me and my SO both agree that our cat is "smarter" than our dog, he (meaning the cat) "invents" games with our dog which the latter very heartily "adopts" but, nevertheless, are not "invented" by him (by the dog).
Also, our dog being a BC that means that, at times, he wants to herd our cat, after long bouts of staring at said cat. In response to all that the cat has invented and performed very smart avoidance techniques that he hadn't use with us before the BC came into our life (the cat was with us first, for about two years).
And that's just two quick things that sprung to my mind on learning the article, there are many others. There's also the misconception of "cats don't love/care about their owners" which is just a stupid stereotype.
by 2wrist on 4/10/22, 12:12 PM
My dad suffered a head injury and afterwards, he could just sit, still, spaced out, in one place all day. At night he used to struggle. Our two cats decided to look after him, they used to snuggle him through the day, or harass him to go get food, or to open this door and that door, he used to be kept pretty active by them! At night they used to sleep close to/on him and if he woke they would stick their faces in his and just purr at him. They gave him so much comfort.
After he passed, they now do this with my mum. In the mornings they will wake her up by licking her forehead, ever so gently.
I guess you can read in to their behaviour what you will, but to us it feels like empathy. Not sure what we would do without them.
by hownottowrite on 4/10/22, 9:56 AM
The real question isn’t how intelligent cats are but whether we’re smart enough to really tell. https://wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-How-S...
by steveBK123 on 4/10/22, 1:54 PM
In the days of mini-cassette operating phone answering machines.. We had a cat who liked the sound of peoples voices. It took us a while to figure out what was happening as we'd have missed messages but one day in my tweens when I was home alone but too busy gaming to answer the phone I observed the following:
* Phone ringing, getting on towards 3-4 rings
* Cat sprinting down the stairs, jumps up onto bookshelf and waits
* Cat listens to the machine pick up the caller and the message they leave
* Caller hangs up and the cassettes go all clickety-clack
* Cat then reaches with his paw around the bookshelf to smack the big blue button
* Message plays back again and is now marked read, light goes out, and no one knows we were left a message
Over the years we saw him do this a number of times! Once he hit the wrong button and overwrote the outgoing message with the sound of himself purring.
by andrewinardeer on 4/10/22, 12:14 PM
Cats are master manipulators and if you have been chosen by one (or more) to feed and shelter them according to their desires you will know this. In the hierarchy of your home atop sits the feline.
They generally do what they please when they decide to do so. And they know it. How many people in your household can say they have this unbridled freedom?
Once you realise that the cat(s) in your abode and life have the luxury to pick and choose their course of action, or lack of it, at their whim the more you understand that they rule and occasionally oversee and direct proceedings.
In my house the cat runs the show. Then my wife. Then my two dogs and then me. I'm sure others on here can relate.
by rollcat on 4/10/22, 10:36 AM
Cats also show a form of... empathy? Consideration?
One of my cats wakes me up every day around 5-6AM to get food. She does so by making just enough noise to wake me up, but not my partner (she's doing it on my side of the bed, etc). She also does that when she's not hungry, but her sister is.
by jelliclesfarm on 4/10/22, 11:42 AM
There is a lot of ‘wild’ left even in domesticated cats compared to dogs. Any animal that still retains the instinct to hunt for survival has to be intelligent. Since the time of pyramids and pharaohs, cats have remained wild and have domesticated the humans.
What we now know as domesticated cats have extra special set of skills..they know how to create and retain memories. They understand reward based stimuli.
There has been enormous research done in the field of cat genetics. UC Davis leads with the cat genetics lab and esp for their work on cat coat genetics.
But we also know what genes changed and evolved for their intelligence as they morphed from feral to domestic.
The most relevant one to intelligence are glutamate receptors that aids learning and memory. Domesticated animals have evolved to developed more coat variations and pigmentations than wild animals. This is why you don’t find a calico tiger but not only are there calico cats, but we also know that their genes guarantee that almost all are also female. Male calicos are sterile and short lived.
It is in the area of cat coat genetics that UC Davis VGL has made enormous strides. There are five key traits that facilitate domestication and one of them is the wide variability in pigmentation/texture of coats.
Even though cats have been around humans, they were allowed to be ‘wild’ and have resisted the intense pressure to adapt for full on domestication.
In a way, they have been more useful in agrarian societies in their undomesticated state and largely due to their hunting instincts…..which once tamed and trained is no longer as effective. Hunting rodents is a far different job that herding docile domesticated sheep.
by vertnerd on 4/10/22, 12:59 PM
It's all about the yardstick we use for measuring intelligence, isn't it?
For years, my rescue cat has had an annoying habit of gently plucking at my clothes with her claws for no apparent reason. Then one day I had an epiphany. I discovered that scritching the top of her head made her stop plucking my clothes. Now she gets head scritches whenever she wants.
So from her perspective I am thoroughly stupid, yet capable of learning simple tricks given enough repetition and reinforcement.
by dspillett on 4/10/22, 10:13 AM
They are often intelligent enough to actively resist intelligence tests, unlike too many humans who click through any and all "only some% know this, do you?" marketing/pii-harvesting rubbish.
by ianai on 4/10/22, 9:42 AM
Still reading, but this seems counter factual:
“Whereas dogs have been bred for utility, cats have been bred solely for appearance.”
My understanding was cats largely served as pest control from the human perspective. It’s probably why they continue to hunt even when well fed.
by derefr on 4/10/22, 5:07 PM
Hypothesis: cats have a mental architecture — brain hardware — that's amenable to learning as much as that of any other mammal with a cortex; but they don't come with instinctive knowledge of certain mental schemas — brain Operating System software, essentially — required for social intelligence. Those mental schemas instead have to be taught/communicated.
- Have you ever seen a "cat raised by dogs"? They develop the same mental schemas around socialization that dogs do; begin to understand the sort of "pack" structure and reward norms that dogs think in terms of; and so end up trainable exactly like dogs, using e.g. social-status gratification/reassurance as a substitute for food. And often, you won't actually have to explicitly train a "cat raised by dogs"; cats are seemingly highly skilled at modelling (i.e. witnessing others earning rewards for a behavior, and then self-motivatedly learning to mimic that behavior), and so a cat that hangs around trained dogs may teach themselves "tricks" it observes the dogs doing.
- Have you ever seen a cat taught human language using AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) devices, a.k.a. "button training"? They can very quickly absorb human mental schemas, learning to not just to favor "using their words" to signal their needs, but also, through that, to begin modelling the world narratively, telling stories about what they witnessed other-person A doing to other-person B. If you communicate the terms "soon" and "later" to them, they will begin asking about the future, expressing a curiosity about whether events (e.g. a person coming home from work) will happen near or far in time. These are not things that cats seem to instinctively think about, until they have the mental schemas to think about them; but once they absorb these schemas, they do engage with these topics!
by ollifi on 4/10/22, 11:25 AM
If me and a cat were thrown into random woods my money would be on the cat surviving for longer period. I think humans are pretty fit in groups, but cats are functional enough to make it on their own.
I think human style intelligence we appreciate so highly is useful mostly in relation to other humans.
by rybosworld on 4/10/22, 5:25 PM
Cats are capable of more than they seem. I've spent time around many different dogs and cats (and other critters) when I worked at a vet clinic. I'd say that the cleverest of cats were almost on par with the cleverest of dogs. But the average dog is much more clever than the average cat. Cats also have a lot less interest in problem solving.
There was one cat who lived permanently at the clinic. She would be crated every night before we left. She would often get out of her crate and we'd find her roaming around the clinic the next morning. The cage required that you press two pins towards each other. It's surprising that she figured this out but also that she had the dexterity to reach outside the cage and do this.
She was one of the smartest animals I've ever interacted with. You could see the gears in her head turning when she wanted to figure something out.
by zabzonk on 4/10/22, 9:51 AM
That first picture of a kitten in a maze reminded me of my A-level (final year pre-university, for non-UK people) Bio project on animal learning. I used gerbils (too scared to use rats) but I can assure people that whatever the animal, the trick is working how to keep the little bastards in the maze, not how to train them.
by mft_ on 4/10/22, 11:00 AM
Having spent the past three years observing two quite different cats who came into my life via a relationship, I'd say the answer is "eh, a little".
One of them has learnt to do basic tricks for treats, and has also learned to turn on two different robot hoovers by pressing the right button - she only does this late at night, which I take either as attention-seeking or just boredom? The other one is the Zoolander of cats.
Beyond this, they seem quite limited: sleep, eat, wander around, watch the world go by, occasionally hang out with us, sometimes play or hunt.
by djaychela on 4/10/22, 4:47 PM
I had three cats when I was younger, and one of them was one who just turned up one day and decided to move in. He had many funny traits, but the best one was if you put down food he didn't like, he wouldn't just not eat it, he would mime that he was burying it, (like they do their poo), as if he was saying "this is crap" to you. He would look at you as he did this, and then walk off. I don't know if this is what he meant, but I thought it was hilarious.
by mytailorisrich on 4/10/22, 10:53 AM
They are very intelligent at communicating different things to us and at learning through observation.
For instance, my experience is that they can quickly understand the function of a door handle and even learn to operate it in order to open the door.
by lionkor on 4/10/22, 10:39 AM
Literally too long, didnt read entirely. But!
> Other tests include the ability to learn and remember. Is the ability to learn by rote a sign of intelligence? If so, any avian mimic is intelligent.
I would argue this shouldnt just be dismissed like that. I would argue that mimicking is a sign of intelligence - The fact that a toddler can mimic an animal, even if that animal has vastly different anatomy, seems very intelligent. It suggests an understanding of the similarities between function of body parts, even if the form differs significantly. Why would an avian mimic not be a sign of significant intelligence, such as understanding vocalizations and how they happen? A bird rarely has to sit there for hours trying random sounds to mimic another sound, it understand and knows what to do, does it not?
by vmception on 4/10/22, 10:05 AM
Great article, other comments have already covered my main thoughts
But those sound boards that let pets communicate with words and concatenate have been okay at helping me move past our tests of intelligence. We cant even communicate with other humans that cant dont talk back or use fingers.
I’m also less convinced that human behaviors are not just reward seeking patterns chained together, so I cant dismiss a pet’s use of a sound board as just trained behavior for a treat - at least as a reason to dismiss their intelligence or weigh that action any way at all
I would say its evidence of understanding and that the animal is aware that they cannot use their vocal cords to respond to us and just give up trying that
by Razengan on 4/10/22, 10:59 AM
Ours understood how to open doors by jumping up at the handle and pulling it down. Another could clearly tell we were angry when we frowned.
by dcdc123 on 4/10/22, 11:32 AM
There is at least one [0] myth that has never had scientific standing or proof stated as factual in that article, so take it with a grain of salt. Several other statements seem iffy to me but I do not know enough those specific subjects to know for sure.
[0] https://sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-packs-dont-actually-have-a...
by robwwilliams on 4/10/22, 4:18 PM
Sarah, OP: What a great summary! I learned a lot from these two long pages.
Appreciate with some reservations this lead:
“I personally consider these experiments cruel and gratuitous (their medical benefit to humans is too often dubious) and though some such experiments are referenced here, Messybeast.com does not support this form of experimentation.”
I understand the political context of starting this way, and as a cat lover it resonates too easily even with me.
But in essentially all western-eastern-northern-southern societies (modern or ancient) that routinely kill and eat such clever beasts as cows, pigs, monkeys, horses, sheep, goats, bunny rabbits, octopi, and all manner of birds, I wonder if “gratuitous and cruel” are the right words. And this wuestion is especially relevant when, as you admit, so much of your cool overview relies on that scientific work. This is cognitive dissonance at its best—-well intentioned but still unrooted. Too “woke” for me.
I would say no: You cannot have this particular cake and eat it too!
And definitely not true the this “gratuitous and cruel” work was either gratuitous and cruel or that it has not contributed greatly to clinical care of humans. It has. Half of what we know (a bit rhetorical) about brain plasticity and repair following brain damage comes from exactly this type of work.
It is intellectually disingenuous to be squeamish, even if a cat lover, if you then use these finding.
And if one is NOT also a strict vegetarian, then please stay silent—-you have no standing in this court of ethical conundrums.
by JoeAltmaier on 4/10/22, 5:25 PM
I'm reminded of a Feynman story about rats in mazes. Their senses enable them to cue in on a dozen things that human maze-builders miss. So the humans misinterpret what ques they use to solve the puzzles, and publish erroneous conclusions.
by Epiphany21 on 4/10/22, 4:04 PM
More intelligent than anyone gives them credit for. I have a couple I let them roam around outside in my garden where they'll wander through the pathways and stop to sniff every individual fruit, vegetable and flower near the edge, as if they're appreciating my work. Most of the stuff in my garden is flat out inedible to them and poses no threat. They're just enjoying the scenery.
by chiph on 4/10/22, 11:34 AM
I've been watching Billi off and on. And her vocabulary has increased over the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ChDCS_z2o
Her favorite word? Mad.
by OtomotO on 4/10/22, 12:06 PM
Counterquestion: how intelligent is Homo Sapiens Sapiens, the self-proclaimed crown of creation?
I was a biology nerd before I became an IT nerd and during my (non scientific) studies I found that many species are way more intelligent than what we give them credit for.
When I studied at university (discontinued, switched to IT) I also found evidence to underline some of my personal findings.
by can16358p on 4/10/22, 11:45 AM
Agreed with the article. Also I was slightly disappointed with my cat when I thought her to look into inside the house and meow at something for months as speaking to something that I can't see, only to realize that she was seeing reflection of some birds on a light pole and was talking to them, thinking that they are inside the house.
by jsz0 on 4/10/22, 3:14 PM
Most animals are smarter than we give them credit for. What they are lacking in is intellect and the ability to understand events that occur over longer periods or time. For example a cat isn't planning its meals for next week but it's smart as hell when it wants a meal right now.
by dghughes on 4/10/22, 2:44 PM
I think a cat's brain would be a great model for intelligent robots. Pattern recognition is what they do well but their brains are better at detecting moment more than anything for humans it's colours.
My cat knows when it's 9pm since that is treat time. She can be sound asleep but at 8:59pm I hear thump thump as she hops down from her sleeping spot. It's not that she is detecting me doing something. I watch streaming video at random times stopping and starting it. There is no obvious cue that I can think of that is allowing her to know the time. Not even sunlight is a cue since the light is wildly different here due to being on the 49th parallel and the seasons. She even adjusts for daylight savings and standard time but it takes about a week.
by ggm on 4/10/22, 10:08 AM
"Cat sense" by John Bradshaw is a fascinating read on the nature of cats. Not really on-topic here, but a great read on feline behaviour.
by squarefoot on 4/10/22, 6:32 PM
One of our cats waits when my girlfriend and I are at the dinner table, then leans against the table with two legs, touches my GF arm with one of his paws and sometimes emits a meow incredibly similar to what in a local dialect translates to "hey!" which probably he already heard a thousand times from us. That's his way to tell us he wants some of our food, and he doesn't stop until he gets some. Not that it counts as a sign of intelligence, anyway I was able to teach the other cat to shake "hands".
To me the sign that cats are definitely intelligent is their ability to make us think so whether they are or not:).
by diamondage on 4/10/22, 5:03 PM
There is Pavlov's dog study but you never hear about Pavlov's cats...funniest comedy by Eddie Izzard: https://youtu.be/lf9Jy9JQgnY
by arwhatever on 4/10/22, 5:41 PM
Anecdote, but I met a random cat on a neighborhood sidewalk in a random town and stopped to love on him for a moment.
When I would walk away, several times he would anticipate my path and run in front of me and lay down to block my path, apparently to receive some more affection.
I’ve had some super affectionate and at least not-dumb cats, but I was still really surprised by this guy’s apparent intentionality. And all for affection - it’s not like I’d had any cat treats on me to give him.
by anthomtb on 4/10/22, 6:00 PM
My cat tells me when she wants to play. She will scratch a specific spot on our engineered wood floor where the top layer is flaking off. As I have no desire to replace a piece of flooring in the middle of the room, this action gets an near instant toss of whatever toy is nearby.
Interesting that female cats form more social, cooperative groups. I wonder if this explains why our female cat seems more sociable and human while our male cat is more aloof.
by taosx on 4/10/22, 3:14 PM
I don't know about Intelligent but I had a cat that was bringing me mice every so often in the morning and was knocking the door for like 10 minutes with her back leg!
The first time I got scared cause I didn't want the mouse to get in the house and I didn't know who was knocking on the door but I think it was half-dead...oh yeah I forgot to mention that all the mice were still alive.
I'll never understand that behavior..she was well fed.
by praptak on 4/10/22, 6:34 PM
My mom's cat did not do anything super smart but she made me feel dumb.
She would walk over and start talking - almost literally. Her trills and mews vere so varied in pitch and length that it sounded like speech. And she responded when we talked to her.
This made me feel dumb, because I obviously couldn't understand what she'd talk about. Well except that one time she detected a leak in the central heating and alerted me to it.
by eric4smith on 4/10/22, 12:50 PM
Cats are oriented towards hunting and killing. In that regard they are seriously intelligent.
Anything else they are not very intelligent. Let’s not make cat videos confuse us.
by duckydude20 on 4/10/22, 1:41 PM
how can we measure other species intelligence when we can't ours... we can't and we shouldn't, every test which states it measures intelligence is dysfunctional... Loved it... http://messybeast.com/intelligence.htm#:~:text=Humans%20ofte...
by userabchn on 4/10/22, 5:10 PM
My cat jumps up to pull down on the handle of closed doors that she wants to open, then pulls the slightly open door with her paw so she can go through. When the front door is locked she finds which room I am in and scratches at the door (I keep the doors closed) until I come, then encourages me to follow her to the front door so that I can unlock it for her.
by mouzogu on 4/10/22, 4:08 PM
I've seen those instagram/tiktok(?) videos where a cat owner will put some kind of weird face filter, and the cat will slowly look up at its owner in shock/disgust/curiosity.
It convinced me that cats are aware of themselves as reflections on a camera or mirror and are much smarter than I thought. To realise something was wrong with their owners face.
by astrostl on 4/11/22, 1:34 PM
> DATA ANALYSIS Two cats (1 male neutered, 6 years old, 1 female neutered 2 years old) hid during the entire test and this data was not included
ahahahahhaha this one from another part of the site is great. Love the content, love the '90s hypersimple design. I gave her a donation and she quickly sent me back a personal note.
by irrational on 4/10/22, 4:50 PM
We provide them with food, shelter, toys, medical care, etc. and they provide us with indifference. Seems pretty smart to me.
by bredren on 4/10/22, 4:20 PM
I moderate /r/adventurecats, which focuses on leash training of house cats.
I started leash training my cat at about 6 months and he is 4.5 years old now.
People are regularly astonished to see a cat content on a leash at all.
But what’s amazing is how much preference, analysis, and decision making you see a cat demonstrate when you spend so much time with them.
by blacklion on 4/10/22, 4:04 PM
I've read, that theory about "alpha male with alpha female in wolf pack" is disproved, as this behavior is seen only in captivity.
Also, claim that cats are breed only for appearance is not completely true, in villages good rat-catchers will breed and not-so-good rat-catchers will have their litters drown.
by kwhitefoot on 4/10/22, 7:07 PM
> Whereas dogs have been bred for utility, cats have been bred solely for appearance.
This strikes me as a dubious statement. Or perhaps I am reading more into it than is really there. Perhaps it was true a hundred or more years ago, but now it seems to me that dogs are overwhelmingly bred for appearance.
by hbarka on 4/10/22, 4:44 PM
I’m amazed by my cat’s stalking instincts. I play hide and seek with her indoors and she will outflank me more than I can outflank her majority of the time. When I think I have the surprise on her she’ll be behind and I’m sure thinking to herself how easy this human is.
by gedy on 4/10/22, 6:12 PM
In the middle of the night, my cat will sometimes open the bathroom towel cabinet. Couldn't understand why until I realized it's a couple feet from the garage door on same wall, and he's actually attempting to go in garage to use the litter box.
by midrus on 4/10/22, 3:02 PM
My cat is the smarter cat ever. It managed to train me very well.
by airbreather on 4/10/22, 10:26 AM
Smart enough to get you to feed it if you own one...
by jokoon on 4/10/22, 3:17 PM
I often think intelligence is an anthropo-centered definition, and even then, intelligence is often badly defined for mathematics.
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by reiichiroh on 4/10/22, 5:15 PM
Just in time for Caturday
by Liambp on 4/11/22, 10:32 AM
Can anyone give me a TLDR of this? I think it is saying that "Just cause cats don't act like humans doesn't mean they aren't smart" but its very long and doesn't have a decent summary so I am not sure.
by Razengan on 4/10/22, 10:55 AM
Yes
by GWBullshit on 4/10/22, 5:51 PM
Depends on who you ask.
In some intelligence circles cats are referred to as "St. Up ID" aka "St. Uppity" because they always like to show your their asses ... almost as if they're begging for some sort of trophy or something.
On the other hand ... over time, cats have developed mice/Rat & human mind-altering poop:
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/cat-poop-parasite-control...
... leading to incidents such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4Y27RQaZk <== notice none of the cats manage to "eat The Rat" aka The Emperor: https://www.trendstees.com/product/emperor-pikachu-t-shirt/ ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhDAJUk-vU
https://quinzo.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/shocking-german-bish...
Same video (shorter), with Russian comment-a-Ri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPK_ij0llc8 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTt4k3lh9Gc
Here is another famous scene from Belgium: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/cat-instant-karm...
So basically, cats poop, Ratz eats the SH!I.T. code, becomes fearless, cat attacks what it assumes is free food and learns a lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSfLDuRtOM
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZulOGB9yXlY <== starts off with "cocaine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bv4KGhtFt4 <== Cocaine Marley fought with the Crips because she got jumped in; she's "Big Blue" ... has "Lincoln Tunnel-vision" and "rolls like a marble" ...
Early example of a PHD candidate's example of Ai: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6008-sumo ... https://tenor.com/view/obviously-defective-tomax-xamot-gi-jo... ... unless you keep insisting on playing it ... then it gets harder exponentially quickly at the later levels ...
At "2:48" is the NSA/Se Cutey Ri's opinion of MSM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKOIKBCC8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4RpBR0Zn0 https://giphy.com/gifs/IntoAction-eH4H6NP5XePcxnO6wU
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/freedomofinfor...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fbi-reveals-its-suspicion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bortnikov#:~:text=Al....
http://thealexandernj.net/ Front view:
https://tenor.com/view/voltron-linkup-gettogether-gif-561031...
aka "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFN3l2NuoE0"
Top view from outer space: https://www.amazon.com/Lolita-Jeremy-Irons/dp/B00001IVFG
This is a random scene from the film: https://voltamagazine.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/decoding-the-...
This is a bizarre random movie theater closing of a place that had some great reviews on Yelp ... yet closed for "undisclosed business circumstances":
https://www.google.com/search?q=edgewater+multiplex+closing&...
https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-outer-worlds/the-outer-worlds-c...
It had great cheap ticket rates and even cheaper matinee rates ...
Unfortunately, messing around with the National "Se Cuty Ri" Agency is a very expensive proposition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPn82XZgTMA
https://tenor.com/view/super-milk-chan-anime-adult-swim-gif-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQW2FFt3-A8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGQvlx4LDqg
https://tenor.com/view/i-got-a-solution-idiocracy-solution-t...
https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+rumsfeld+smile&tbm=is...
This is what Donald Rumsfeld was trying to give endless clues about what "Pentagon" is a "Ran MAGA/Anagram/Spell-s-witch" about (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9169611/Rihann...):
https://www.yahoo.com/video/pentagon-35-trillion-accounting-...
https://tenor.com/view/destro-marvel-animated-such-bottomles...
by naoqj on 4/10/22, 9:36 AM
Tldr?