Breadth can also be considered "diversity" in this case, i.e., experiencing the cat against many different background environments and the time-evolution of the

Breadth can also be considered "diversity" in this case, i.e., experiencing the cat against many different background environments and the time-evolution of the sensory readings attributable to the cat relative to that background. Breadth also refers perhaps to the massively parallel sensor streams. The sense of touch is not one experience, but the amalgamation of millions of experiences -- one per nerve ending. So far the sensor platforms we develop artificially have on the order of 1000s of sensors, not the millions that distinguish the combination of temperature and pressure at certain "optimized" key points. Rote and myopic counterarguments do not a futurism-oriented discussion make.