How it works in the morning….

Almost every morning, when I emerge from the bedroom, my smaller cat and I have a conversation. She meows at me, and I back at her. Sometimes it lasts until the tea is ready. During the entire thing, she looks very intently and earnestly up at me. She clearly has something to say. Sometimes, instead of speaking “cat,” I lapse into english. On those mornings we have great conversations. We talk about foreign policy, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the future of bioinformatic software, and other things.

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