• SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    I mean, I’m not sure cats are out there observing human babies and intentionally imitating them. They have pattern recognition machines in their heads just like we do. “Make noise = human pay attention” is about as complex as this gets. The fact that we’re susceptible to the specific timbre of their voices seems likely to be evolutionary coincidence.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes and, you missed the last crucial step

      “Make noise = human pay attention” “Human feeds and protects me = more kittens that probably know to pay attention” … “Profit”