"Does the cat experience superposition?" Questions like these have always seemed to me like mistaking the map for the terrain. Quantum mechanics is a model, an

"Does the cat experience superposition?" Questions like these have always seemed to me like mistaking the map for the terrain. Quantum mechanics is a model, an abstraction of reality, trying to cope with uncertainties in reality that our observation & measurement technologies can't really settle. It's interesting but not to be taken quite so literally. Right? I dunno, clearly I'm not a physics expert. But I'm not a music expert either (actually I am but let's pretend), but I know that the sounds that please or impress advanced academic peers/mentors/funders rarely overlap with those that please the rest of the world. The Art and Architecture departments are like that also, and I suspect but can't prove that e.g. Economics, and more to the point, Physics, are too. I probably sound like I'm verging dangerously close to anti-intellectualism here, which I don't really want to do in the current cultural climate, but if anything it's the opposite: We should remember that believing someone implicitly just because they're an intellectual is also anti-intellectual. It's an appeal to authority which is one of the classic logical fallacies. Someone is not necessarily immune to institutional pressures (nor are they even necessarily an honest person) just because they're an intellectual. But you need to conduct your own research or at least a survey of the existing research before you can call yourself even a legitimate skeptic (as opposed to just a troll)! Which is why I'm stopping short of actually saying anything... so hey, my apologies for the time-wastage!