What you described is more or less consistent with Schrödinger’s views.
In the Copenhagen interpretation, a quantum system is described by a wave function (the probability density of all of its possible states; the cat is maybe dead and maybe alive) until it is observed, at which point it collapses into one of its possible states (the cat is definitively dead or definitively alive).
As far as I can tell, in Schrödinger’s views, there is no superposition and there is no collapse, and a system is described directly by its wave function, which changes over time.
But this is all just interpretation. I don’t even know where to start looking for empirical evidence that supports one or the other, or whether there’s even a point philosophizing about it.
What you described is more or less consistent with Schrödinger’s views.
In the Copenhagen interpretation, a quantum system is described by a wave function (the probability density of all of its possible states; the cat is maybe dead and maybe alive) until it is observed, at which point it collapses into one of its possible states (the cat is definitively dead or definitively alive).
As far as I can tell, in Schrödinger’s views, there is no superposition and there is no collapse, and a system is described directly by its wave function, which changes over time.
But this is all just interpretation. I don’t even know where to start looking for empirical evidence that supports one or the other, or whether there’s even a point philosophizing about it.
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