Schrödinger’s Cat is often used to illustrate the paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics, but does this thought experiment accurately reflect the complexities of quantum theory, or does it simplify them to the point of misunderstanding?
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I think it does make one type of misunderstanding, where in the story the “box” is a magic material that splits a region of space from the rest of the universe perfectly and not any actual sort of box, so it leads people to think it’s just the human looking that mattered, not reconnecting the space to interact with the world. So you get the mysticism of “observers” that people mistakenly hype up
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