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Schrodinger's Cat is Nonsense. Always was.

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Expectation Violation

Schrodinger's cat is the famous one that's alive and dead at once, and lots of people take that literally. ABSURD over a calm cat in a skull-stamped box says the puzzle was silly all along. You click to find out what everyone got wrong.

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'Always was' is the jab, since it says the idea was never right in the first place, which challenges everyone who has repeated it as fact.

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Red arrows from both sides meet on a cat that's clearly alive, and the skull stamp stands in for the poison from the famous thought experiment.

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Recreate the famous example, then call it absurd.

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FormatVideo Essay
Click driverExpectation ViolationCuriosity GapIdentity & Self-Relevance
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