Well yes, to an observer. But this is trivially true and the author didn't seem to state otherwise. — Wallows
He says that it is not the case that cats could turn out to be robots. That if it turned out that cats were automata, we should say that what we had thought to be cats were not cats, but robots.
TO be a cat is necessarily to be an animal. — Banno
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