That could be why my cat, age 6, still hasn't figured out that that tentacle thing that always follows him is his own tail. He thinks it's another quantum Obie.
replyThis implies that the act of observing a cat doesn't collapse their wavefunction. This could have big implications for quantum computing!
replyThis leads us to Winger's cat (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend ). In the novel Timelike Infinity (great series btw), the Ultimate Observer is claimed to be the consciousness at the end of universe that collapses all entangled wave functions. Note the word "entangled" ... like a ball of yarn. The ultimate observer is a cat with a cosmic ball of yarn tracing back the histories of every particle.
replyWave function collapse isn't caused by an observer, but rather "does the cat care about this?"
Also explains the purring. Waveform collapse as all nine cats coalesce for pets.
replyDepressing that some would call you a kook. Creativity is where new science happens.
replyI have often been called a kook myself. I feel my Schizoaffevctive disorder is expressed because the quantum state most people express is not the same as mine.