oMan,
Funny that nature is filled with self-correcting systems, yet we are instructed to believe that the World is perched on a knife’s edge, always on the verge of falling into the abyss

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“When your cat is trying to tell you to give her food, how does she do it? She has no word for food or milk. What she does is to make movements and sounds that are characteristically those that a kitten makes to a mother cat. If we were to translate the cat’s message into words, it would not be correct to say that she is crying ‘Milk!’ Rather, she is saying something ike ‘Mama!’ Or, perhaps still more correctly, we should say that she is asserting ‘Dependency! Dependency!’ The cat talks in terms of patterns and contingencies of relationship, and from this talk it is up to you to take a deductive step, guessing that it is milk that the cat wants.”

[-- "Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication," 1966]