Can a cat be dead and alive at the same time?

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If information ever exists. It cannot either vanish. If something vanishes it requires that at least information about that object exists. If something never exists. It cannot either vanish because vanishing requires existence...

The reason for that is simple. Only existing things can vanish. 

If we are thinking about Schrödinger's cat. And the box where that cat is put where the cat is in a position where it cannot release without killing it, we can say that at the same time cat is dead and alive. But the fact is that the answer to the question is the cat is dead or is it alive requires another type of logic. The particle can be in two places at the same time. Because of quantum superposition. But the particle can have only one existence if it will have existed. 

In logical quantum mechanics, the superposition means that the particle is in two places horizontally. But the energy level of those particles can be different. And that means the particles can be vertically at different levels. 

But if the particle is dead. It doesn't have existence. And that means the particle is meaningless. 

In information theory, the information cannot vanish. But if the observer doesn't have information. That makes information non-existent. Getting information makes it existent. But if the observer doesn't never get information about the things like a cat. The cat is dead.

 Because information never existed. It cannot either vanish. 

Information can change its form. in system theory, this means. The cat that carries information is living. And when the cat delivers its information it is dead. So if the cat serves some system as the messenger which carries some USB stick between two computer centers. That means the cat lives until it delivers the USB stick. 

If we think like that anything that means something to the system is alive. And if the cat doesn't have a message or it just walks on the streets it's dead. So living means that things have some kind of meaning to other actors. 

But information theory describes the existence that an object doesn't have the form of to subject before the subject sees that object. So the cat is dead for a person until that actor gets knowledge about the cat's existence. We all know that in our house can be a cat. But we cannot see it and because the cat doesn't cause any actions to us or it doesn't give any markings to our calendars that means the cat is dead. 

That way thinking only things that we know and things that causes interactions are alive. The form of the information can be virtual. That means even if the cat. That someday carried messages but then escaped and the observer never sees it again the cat is alive in its virtual form. Observers can discuss the missing cat. And that makes the cat still alive. Even without straight contact with the observer. The cat remains alive in the virtual mode in the memories of those people. 

So the cat's living or existence can be stronger or weaker. It depends on how often we see it, and how often we talk about that thing. Maybe we will tell stories of the lost cat to our grandchildren. And that keeps it alive in our memories or the virtual world if we want to call memories virtual projection. But memories are forming of real things. That means those tales about that cat are weaker existence than seeing a cat straight. Or touching it. 

Being alive=Being exists. 

Being exist= actor can measure an object. 

And then the actors know the object. 

Knowledge brings the object to reality. 

That means until we measure or touch the cat. It would not turn into reality. 

That is one interesting thing. Before a person sees a cat it is dead because it is not part of reality. That means the cat or particle can be at the same time in two states but those states cannot be too far from each other. The cat cannot be alive and dead at the same time. That is a paradox as I wrote earlier. 

But a cat can be alive in virtual and physical existing modes. We can see the cat and tell about it to our mate, who stands near us. That means the cat has two states virtual and real to the system. But for individual actors, the cat can have only one state. They see cats and measure or they cannot see them. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/reality-doesn-t-exist-until-we-measure-it-quantum-experiment-confirms

The system slides from a conditional state to an absolute state. 

Conditional state>>>>>Information spreds>>>>>>>>>>Absolute state

Conditional state

Individuals of the entirety get information about the cat. 

Information spreads

In absolute state, every participant of entirety knows about the cat. 

The system slides from a conditional state to an absolute state. When the cat or information is between the states. It can have this conditional state. But sooner or later, the information must reach a stable state. Or if the cat falls between states it has the absolute state. The fall means that the absolute state changes very fast. But when the cat reaches the floor. It would reach the minimum energy level or state. 

"Being alive" for an object means that the actor can know about it. The knowledge of the actor turns it alive. 

"Maybe mode" is the mode where the same time cat is alive and dead at the same time. But when information spread in the system the system turns to Yes/No mode. 

That thing requires that there are multiple independent actors in the system. The system slides from the conditional state to the absolute model. 

When the first actors in entirety get knowledge of the cat's existence. There is the medium where the entirety has at the same time two states. But then the system will slide from the conditional mode or state to the absolute mode. When the system is in its absolute state form, the cat is dead or alive not dead and alive. 

An actor can be an individual. Or it can be a group of individual actors. 

All systems contain multiple actors. And if we think that group of people is searching for the cat and one sees it. Then that individual tells that thing to another participant that thing causes that cat to have two states virtual and physical in the system where are multiple actors. But the individual actor the cat is real or virtual. Or the actor doesn't know the existence of the cat. And that means the cat is dead. 

The actor can have three forms. Two of them are where the observer realizes its existence. And one form where observers don't know the existence of the actor. That is the dark mode that is hidden from actors. 

*Virtual form

*Physical form

*If nobody knows the existence of the actor, he's dead. 

The knowledge makes the object dead or alive. Being dead and alive are black and white. The actor can know the existence of the cat. Or the actor doesn't know that thing so the cat is dead. If the actor hears about the cat that thing makes it alive in virtual mode. When a person sees cats' traces. That will bring the knowledge of its existence stronger. And that will turn it more existing and more living than just talking about it. 

But a cat cannot be dead and alive at the same time. When people are talking about cats it turns alive. Because existing things are living things. The cat's existence can be virtual when somebody just describes the cat to others. Or it can be physical when the actor touches the cat. But in both cases cat is alive. The reason for that is that requirement for a thing's existence is that the observer becomes conscious of its existence. If a person doesn't know about its existence the thing is dead. The existence means that the cat is alive. 

When we think that a cat is dead or alive. We must say that for the system that is the entirety of multiple actors. The cat can be dead or alive. The individual actors can have different knowledge about the existence of the cat. In that stage, the system is in maybe mode. But when information about that cat's existence spreads. That system will turn to the mode. That allows it to get knowledge about the existence of the cat. 

The term dead cat means a cat whose existence is not known. Knowing the existence of the cat makes it alive. The cat cannot be dead and alive at the same time. The reason for that is simple we know that cat exists or we don't know a cat's existence. We cannot know and not know the existence of the cat at the same time. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/dont-let-yourself-get-tangled-up-by-these-4-quantum-mechanics-misconceptions

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What mean, that the cat is dead or the cat is alive?

Schrödinger's cat is the thinking experiment that can introduce the imperfectness of quantum mechanics when we are transferring from the atomic level to microscopic systems. The problem is that we know that some of our observations are wrong. When we boil water we know that water is vaporizing. And sooner or later the dish is empty. We might ask where water is? We know that the water molecules or hydrogen and oxygen atoms that formed those molecules still exist. 

The idea is that in quantum mechanics the particle can at the same time exist and not exist. Wave-particle duality means that even if annihilation turns the entire particle to wave movement that wave movement can turn back to that particle. So if we want to connect Schrödinger's cat with the particle-wave duality. It means when annihilation turns particle to wave movement it is not lost. It just changed its form. 

Schrödinger's can is the cat that is at the same time alive and dead. The problem with the quantum mechanic theory is that it's too absolute. The material is or material does not exist. The problem with too absolute theories is. They don't take into account transformation. When we are boiling water that thing seems to vanish, but we know it just turns its form. That means water molecules exist. But we can use them for nothing. So water that was in the dish existed. But that water lost its meaning to us. 

In quantum theory, the cat can be at the same time dead and alive. And that thing is determined as Schrödinger's cat. That the most famous cat in the world is the model of superposition. Term superposition means the material like particle or particle group can be at the same time at two different positions. The position can be in energy, it can be in space or place, or it can be in time. 

The position can mean that the particle is in two locations but the particle can also have an internal energy state. That does not affect its core. Or the superposition can mean that the oscillation of two particles or particle groups would synchronize and that thing makes those particles are like the same particles. 

Because elementary particles, like electrons or photons, oscillate at the same frequency they are like the same particle. When they are under stress by radiation they turn to the same particle. In quantum teleportation, the radiation is connecting two particles.

And when another side of that thing is moving. Also, another part of the particle pair is moving. The superpositioned and entangled particles are connected by the "stick" of radiation. There is no limit in the length of superposition and superpositioned and entangled particles can use to make the real-time communication to another star. That thing is called quantum teleportation. 

But when we are thinking about things like are cats dead or are they alive. We can also determine the words "Alive" and "dead" by using some other terms. At that moment we can replace the word "alive " by using the word "thing that means something to us". And word "dead" means that the thing means nothing to us. 

Let's take one example. What if the cat carries a USB stick that involves some important information? So if that USB stick is put to the collar? And the cat lost that thing, the cat means nothing for that mission. That means from the point of view that cat is dead. Of course, it can be cute or a nice pet. But that cat has no information it has nothing to do with its mission and its dead. 

But let's think otherwise. The cat can die and there is no collar. But there is the possibility that the USB stick is surgically installed in its body. So the cat still means something for the mission. It still can carry important information even if it's dead. So that means the cat can be alive and carry data that has a purpose even if it's dead for somebody else. At the end of this text, I must ask: "why Schrödinger didn't use water and dish in this example"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

https://thoughtsaboutsuperpositions.blogspot.com/

An example of the creature. That is at the same time living and dead.

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other. (Wikipedia/Schrödinger's cat)

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This is philosophical thinking about topics: Could Schrödinger's cat exist somewhere else than just in the quantum world?

The Schrödingers cat is an example of the superposition. The case where the cat is living can transfer to qubit to the case where qubit transmits data. And the cat is dead when the data is gone. There have been made many examples of cases where people can create physical conditions of the Schrödinger's cat. In those examples, the cat is closed in the cube and if somebody touches it the cat would die. Same way qubit loses its data if somebody touches it. 

But can living creatures get the Schrödinger-position? One of those creatures that can be same time dead and alive is a vampire. If the vampire is getting radiation it would burn to ash. So we can say that the vampire of the stories is the so-called Schrödinger-creature. And that means the vampire of the stories is between dead and alive. 

So the Scrödinger creature is the creature that is between death and living. The idea for Scrödinger's creature is taken from the vampire stories.  But one of the most interesting examples about the Schrödinger-creature is the hypothetical scientist who wants to live forever. The next writing is the hypothetical creature that is like Schrödingers cat. 

For making that thing our mad scientist would destroy mitochondria and the DNA from the cells. And then the needed brain chemicals would be injected into the body of that scientist. 

Then our hypothetical person would go in the chamber where is physically and chemically stable conditions. And then that creature would get the energy for the nervous system from outside. So if that imaginational person would make that thing the lifetime would increase because cells don't need nutrients for energy production because that thing would come outside from the body.

The thing is that this kind of creature would not ever walk anywhere because that thing cannot lose a single cell. The renewing of the cells is not possible. And without genetic material and mitochondria that organism would be connected to the room forever. And one single bacteria can be devastating. Because that creature has no immune system even the one bacteria can destroy the entire body. 

So that creature would be the Schrödinger-creature. The creature would be dead to other people. That creature would be in the example of the creature that is living in the chamber unable to go out. Maybe that creature would have robots to operate for it. But otherwise, that kind of creature would live in the chamber, and we cannot be sure if that thing is dead or alive. 

https://thoughtsaboutsuperpositions.blogspot.com/