Patrick Elliott wrote:
> that its alive/dead state would be a mute point after that. ;)

Well, the point remains that "observation" is not the same as "interaction 
with another particle." Indeed, figuring out the probabilities of where the 
particle goes is basically calculating all possible interactions the 
particle might have had while you're not looking. There's no fundamental 
reason in the equations that the wave forms should collapse, and there's no 
fundamental reason why any lab equipment you might set up shouldn't be in a 
superposition of states. Indeed, if you look up how a delayed choice quantum 
eraser works, you can see that the particle can be in a superposition of 
states even after it has been measured and recorded, let alone interacting 
with one other particle. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser

(And incidentally, the word is "moot", not "mute." :-)

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