>>11525843>Isn't the cat an observer itself?Yes, and the cat is either alive or dead.
>What am I missing?That some pseudoscientific morons think an observer can be in a superposition.
In case you're unaware, the thought experiment was an attempt to show that the concept of superpositions and wavefunction collapse is absurd (and, to an extent, an attempt to disprove these concepts).
No human really knows how QM works but it is my belief that superposition does not even exist. IF it does exist, then it exists only at the quantum scale.
>b-but muh Schrodinger's cat involves a quantum scale superposition that determines if the poison is releasedYeah, but (if superposition even exists) once that quantum superposition interacts with a larger-than-quantum system (the vial of poison), it collapses. So... macro-scale physics can be considered to be an 'observer'.
Don't buy that? Okay, then the cat can be the observer. But really, the superposition affects the vial of poison before it affects the cat, so it collapes before even affecting the cat.
And yes, the cat is an observer too, it's just that the vial of poison (itself a macroscale system) observes (is affected by) the quantum system before the cat is.
