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Darren New wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>>> If a cat's status is not decided until someone looks inside
>>>
>>> Since that isn't true, it's a meaningless question to ask.
>>
>> I thought the whole point of that experiment was that according to QM
>> the cat was both alive and dead until you actually tried to look?
>
> That's correct. But it's clearly not true, because the *cat* is
> observing the situation, right? Of course the cat's status is decided by
> the cat before anyone looks in the box,
Who on Earth would let a cat decide anything? One whiff of catnip and it
would say whatever you wanted. ;)
>
> I.e., the whole point of the experiment is to show how absurd it was to
> think the QM "collapsed because it's observed" promoters were right.
>
That’s what I thought too.
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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