Or the reverse, especially since the notion of the cat not being dead without a human to verify it is a narcissistic one born out of human vanity, which, although not exactly bragged about, is really the greatest gift the Gods have annointed humanity with - the gift of self-adulating self-centeredness - or so it seems.
Like the "If a tree fell in a forestt, and no one was around to hear it, how do we know it made a sound?" Well how do we know it fell in the first place or even existed, the forest as well for that matter because people are so Godlike nothing can exist until they decide it does?