Cat in a Box
alright so once upon a time was this guy called Erwin Schrodinger who came up with a what i'm going to call a dilemna...cuz what it's really called is a thought experiment to illustrate the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (thank you internet)...but the dilemna is this...a cat is in an enclosed box and poison is randomly released into the box...the dilemna is this...unless you open the box you have no way to conclude whether the cat is dead or alive...it's an unknown until such time that you open it...
and over the past couple days i've been mulling over my own box in my head...i have a box...it's a nice box...and my only problem is whether or not i open the box and see if that cat is alive or not...but i'm not a cat person so i'm going to change it to a dog...cuz if i opened it and the cat was dead no big thing...but if it's a dog...very sad...i hope it's alive...though i won't know til i open it
i gotta open the box...
talk to you tomorrow
and over the past couple days i've been mulling over my own box in my head...i have a box...it's a nice box...and my only problem is whether or not i open the box and see if that cat is alive or not...but i'm not a cat person so i'm going to change it to a dog...cuz if i opened it and the cat was dead no big thing...but if it's a dog...very sad...i hope it's alive...though i won't know til i open it
i gotta open the box...
talk to you tomorrow
posted by amateur&prose at 1:11 PM
3 Comments:
Solution: Throw the box off a cliff before opening it. That should kill it.
i have one of those boxes... but it's sealed so tight that even if the cat/dog/other [once living] organism didn't get injected with poison, it would suffocated from lack of oxygen. :)
sounds like you're reverting to a safe focus on the original 'cat in the hat'.. err. a .. box, rather than addressing the obvious metaphor that is being posed. not everything dies after prolonged suffocation. sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder, after all...
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