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    Huge explanation of why Schrödinger's Cat is wrong

    It isn't wrong.
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    I tend to disagree, I think you are missing the point of Schrodinger's Cat, it is a mental exercise not a proof. I'm no physics expert but I do know the experiment is designed to demonstrate uncertainty, indeed you are "observing".

    Not totally sure but I think you might have an interesting article on your hands? Did you write that?
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    Conscious observers causing wavefunction collapse fell out of fashion with pretty much 99.999% of reputable physicists like 4 decades ago. I think there was talk of it in the 1920s-1940s, but in recent decades only a few crackpots have spoken in support of it (Goswami is the only one I know of). Not that consc causing reduction is wrong, it's just that it's unparsimonious under any physicalist regime.

    What you're describing is decoherence theory. Been around for quite a while now.

    Also your summation of what the wavefunction "is" is just one interpretation. Don't forget there's many interpretations: many worlds, 2 time directions, decoherence, deterministic with point-particle guided by a field, ... , approaches : that tell a different story
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