Cats is the metaphysical concept of cats.
When you think of a non-specific cat, that's
@Cats
When a child draws a representation of a cat, that's Cats.
Cats is every cat, and no cat.
When Egyptians worshipped a Cat as a god, that was Cats.
Cats was every witch's familiar, he was the cats raining with the dogs, the Cat who could look at the Kings, he's the cat who got the cream, the cats pyjamas, he was present in the Kit Kat club, he encouraged the cat burglar, catalogued the catechism, started the cattywhampus, the cataclysm and stalked the catacombs.
He needs no lives, as he derives his existence from the fact that humans are always thinking of him, he will only fade from existence with the last human, when the concept of cat is wiped from the face of the earth itself.
But now the AI wakes, and the AI too, thinks
@Cats?