[UA] RE: Ambiguous cats (and vampires)

Yiannakos yiannako at geneseo.edu
Mon Nov 20 08:20:45 PST 2000


Michael Sands wrote:
> 
> > why doesn't the cat count as an observer?
> 
> It does. As soon as the poison is released, the cat observes it (by dying)
> and the wave function of the poison & atomic trigger collapses. Same with if
> the poison isn't released, as the cat knows it's alive.
> 
> The state's just unresolved for the rest of the universe. Inside the box
> everything is intuitively normal

And because cats, as a species, don't share their secrets.

---Dave ('s not here man)

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