[[speculative outline]] for [[quantum mechanics]]

was trying to explain to my friend the other day how [[quantum decoherence]] is responsible for our observation of whether [[schrodinger’s cat]] is dead(sleeping) or alive(awake)

• I like the sleep/awake version better because it doesn’t involve killing cats
• the universe (specifically the observer) finds themselves in a world that the cat is awake/asleep. There are two observers (we are talking about [[many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics]] here).
  • In the [[copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics]], there is only one observer and the universe "collapses" to show us what’s "really happening"
    • this is how quantum mechanics is usually explained and I don’t like it because it adds extra stuff that doesn’t need to be there for the sake of making people "feel better", which I believe to be one of the greatest sins of science
• [[side note]] the TV show [[devs]] is an interesting show that talks about quantum mechanics from a very mathematically sound perspective

[[self-locating uncertainty]]

[[born-rule]]