(October 14, 2020 at 8:27 pm)Brian37 Wrote: As the famous experiment suggestion goes, if you put a cat in a box, and could not see it, it could be considered both dead and alive until you unveil the box and the contents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
My late friend Bob, had a huge problem with this mental experiment, in that no mater the cause of the cat's survival or death, Shodinger never took into account the point of view of the cat itself.
It is easy to assume life or death if you are outside the POV. Schrodinger never took into account the POV of the cat he theoretically put into his thought experiment.
I think the question is does the probability function collapse for different, non-communicating observers at different times?
Imagine it is not the cat but you in the box. The probability function of your being alive collapses the moment the thing that determines your life and death executes it’s decision. But if you have no means of communicating the outcome of this collapse to an outside observer, would the outside observer continue to perceive the box as if you were both alive and dead inside?
