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"A scientist goes about wanting to learn everything there is to know about cats. To do this, he decides to study their inner workings through dissection. He spends hours carefully taking each piece of the cat apart. He places the liver neatly next to the heart, the kidneys alongside the stomach, labeling each organ with precision. He meticulously maps out the muscles, traces the nerves, and diagrams the intricate structure of the skeleton. By the end of his work, the scientist knows more about the anatomy of a cat than almost anyone else. He understands how its body works, how its lungs breathe, how its heart pumps blood. But as he looks at the neatly arranged pieces, he’s left with a nagging realization that what he is looking at is no longer a cat: he hasn’t come any closer to understanding what it’s like to know a living, breathing cat."

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