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Maybe she is talking about email notifications, because most email are text, so silence. But if you stop to think, when you read email, your brain can process this as an audible memory, so noise. Much like you read some author famous quote, and you can "hear" in your mind his voice. :)
The point is, most cats are sooo unique in personality, I think mirror only cannot give any sure about this. Without take in consideration personality and the response from another senses its hard get any reliable conclusion.
I have cared a lot of cats, and I didnt knew about all that experiences, but I did a lot about this with my pets. I put a mirror in front of the cat, and watched the reactions. The pattern is 90% the same:
1) The cat looks surprised. Depending of the the natural character of the cat, he will watch the reflex or get "armed" to fight. Cleary he think its another stranger cat.
2) The cat then try "feel" the reflex, touching sometimes, smelling other times, and ever trying look behind the mirror
3) Finally, the cat probably detects the reflex is not a threat and lose the interest
I really dont know if has some part of "self awareness", but probably the cat lose the interest really far before any of this level of perception
Other point is, the cat trust more in the sense of smell and hearing than the sense of view. Only one image is not enough to "identify" a target.
The problem with JS is you need deal with a lot of hacky legacy things too, you want try new cool things on ES6/ES7, but you need take care about compatibility, 3rd party libraries integration, etc.
IMHO, I hope something like "ES10", where they forget previous versions, create from scratch a new javascript, without worries about polifilling, compatibily, shimming, etc. Then start to evolve from there.
I'm really in a great learning experience using C#/Asp.Net MVC 5 on VSCode. You need learn command lines of how to build, start IISExpress, etc.
My next steps are learn how to use Nuget and EF migrations via Powershell (out of Visual Studio), and maybe use/create scaffolding with yeoman. I dont think will be hard... I type commands inside of VS IDE. I just need a bit more of time :)