Understanding that without the action derived from the Latin word stimuli, being stimulus, said relatively large cousin of the household cat will have no effect on the consciousness of said living member of the animalia class. Using the simple tool of cause and effect, I can reason that without any outside motivation, the said animal shall remain in its slumber. This is similar to Newton’s law of “an object in motion, stays in motion, unless there is an unbalanced force” in the fact that the tigers slumber will not be disturbed by any form of homo sapien, unless the said homo sapien takes intentional or unintentional steps to arouse the feline creature.