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I would be more then interested to discuss principles of uncertainty, or any other chaotic situations.
The cat is dead.
The cat is not.
FIN.
The cat may only be real because your mind says it is.
The correct response would be: The cat is only real because it's been observed. Once you have opened the box, it's wave fucntion collapses, thus bringing it to it's current state. However, the issue at hand then becomes what's to say what form you exist in.
thanks for elaborating on the same point. you certainly get a +1 for using bigger words.
The real question is: How does light know we are observing it?
Not exactly the same point. You leaned further on the philisophical side. "Because your mind says it is".
You might have meant to be signifying the chemical reations occuring between neurons, but it sounded more like. "I think therefore I am". If that wasn't the case, I apologize.
One doesn't need to know it's being observed to be observed. Light, by itself, as we understand it, is not alive, nor sentient.