It's hard to know whether Google's self-driving cars ought to be called recommendation technology based on big data, or whether this is going beyond recommendation and into directive commands.
Direct cognition is where you look for your answers. You can really become self-directing if you realize you have that directive force right within you.
Cat character is very tough, self-esteem particularly strong, the owner treated the directive, even if I have understood, But as long as that are not to their liking, the cat would not do it.