hmmm

How many times have you seen cats upside down, like I have?"

The question that emerged from all the cat questions was pretty interesting. I wanted to know if it was possible that our perception of cats does not accurately reflect their behavior. I asked this question because there have been numerous studies that have demonstrated the important role of the eyes in cat perception.

It was hard to avoid the irony in asking how blind people could recognize cats in photographs unless they actually see them. After all, we know that cats have the same eyesight as humans. But even if we knew they had the same eyesight, it was hard to argue that the blind could correctly distinguish dogs! Why? And why would any blind person do something that was so obviously wrong?

The reason why we would do that was because of what scientists call the "sense of smell." This happens before anyone even recognizes the cat.

When people first perceive a cat, their brain is busy processing smells. The cat senses its owner and the person looking it because that's what cat vision does. It takes in visual information and then it processes it. To determine if they look at their cat that way or not, the brain has to process the smell. How could cats have visual information they could not interpret?

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