In Ernst Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, a cat sits in a closed box. Next to it: a radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, and a poison ampoule. Whether the cat is alive or dead remains undetermined – as long as no one checks. Schrödinger's absurd experimental setup was intended to demonstrate the irritating effect quantum logic has on the old, materially bound understanding of reality.
The uncertainty of the world. In Schrödinger's thought experiment, the cat is in a closed box. Whether the cat is alive or dead remains undetermined – as long as no one checks. Only when we open the box do we know which of the two states has occurred. Both are possible.
Consciousness creates reality. Certainty only arises through conscious intervention or observation. Then, possibility (the quantum world) becomes what we call reality. Heisenberg had shown that the act of observation changes what is observed. What we call "reality" is not a fixed given, but the result of a dialogue between the world and consciousness.
Per se A rather complicated thought experiment. But there's nothing that can't be made even more complicated. Imagine the cat howling:
Then we know: she is not simply dead or alive – she feels the state of suspension.
She senses the tension between possibility and reality, between the hope of living or possibly having to die. It's undecided for her—and for us, too.
