Do cats think?

Someone asked me if I thought cats think. Undoubtedly, they do. They must! It is quite unprovable though, until we become clever enough to communicate with them. And at that point we will simply ask and they will answer.... (probably in valleyese.. Duh!) But I have no doubt that they do. Simply watch one for a while, it spends most of its time observing and if something falls into its domain of doable practices (the complete list of learned behaviors). Whatever provokes it to action though, has to be above the threshold of activation. If whatever it is does not exceed the threshold, the cat will simply remain forever in observation mode. And could as easily, relax completely into nap mode!

But of course, cats have feelings too. All sentient beings have feelings. And so if logic and logical extension are trustworthy or even applies to cats, then what I believe is that if thought leads to feeling... then by some reverse logic, if cats feel, then they must also think (have thoughts). Now I am not a master logician, the logic used here seems viable. A leads to B, so if B is present, then we might assume that an A is involved. The problem here of course is the initial assumption, thought leads to feeling. This falls into the 'might be unprovable' category. But in this mysterious world we live in, I have to take my proof of it (thought leads to feelings) by the venerable Occum's razor proof (when all other proofs fail, use the simplest explanation.) I believe that feelings are the result of thought. You sometimes have to think about something for a long time before it becomes a feeling in you. I also believe that there are only two ways to learn; first through modeling (or by example) and the second way is experimentation (by doing, failing or succeeding and mentally retaining the result for the future.) So, you try something, possibly fail the first time. Try again, maybe a little better result and again and again. Each time mentally saving the 'result' for future reference. Then finally, you think again about doing that something and voila! You have a feeling about it! Now, let's think about cats again. Yes, cats repeat things, just like we do. They should, like us, develop feelings about things and also think about them!