If you look at animals on earth, they just aren't curious about many of the things we are curious about. My cats for example don't find television interesting.
Suppose there's some property of physics that looks like random noise to us (maybe like a TV looks like random noise to a cat) but to a different species they see it's something they can model and understand while our species just ignores it?
Your cats don’t find the tv interesting because they can’t even see it. Their visual refresh rate is different enough from humans that they just see flashes of images (a refresh rate above 100hz is needed for cats to watch tv or see a screen, IIRC).
I don't think making Youtube videos go at 4x speed will result in more interest from the cats, but I'll test it later.
Of course the TV thing was just an example, cats don't pass the mirror test (If you put red dye on one part of their face they show no interest in how their face looks different when looking in a mirror).
The speed of the YouTube video doesn’t matter, it’s the refresh rate of the tv or monitor that matter. With a tube tv or older lcd screen, it just looks like a flashing gizmo.
I have a 120 hz Oled Android TV. Unless Youtube drops frames speeding up a 30 FPS video 4x should hit 120 FPS.
I've never heard of someone filming a video for cats in 4x slow motion and asking people to play it at 4x to entertain a cat, so I'm assuming this experiment has been tried and doesn't work, but I'll give it a shot.
(It occurs to me I would need to confirm the Android Youtube app supports 120 FPS otherwise I'd need to play something through a PC).
I’m not talking about FPS. At all. It doesn’t matter how many FPS there are. I’m talking about the refresh rate, ie, how many times per a second the hardware updates the screen which is in no way related to FPS, which is how many times per second your video card fills the display buffer.
I don't follow. All high end OLED TVs these days have a 120 hz refresh rate. This would appear to disprove the idea that TVs have too low a refresh rate for cats.
Suppose there's some property of physics that looks like random noise to us (maybe like a TV looks like random noise to a cat) but to a different species they see it's something they can model and understand while our species just ignores it?