• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    A box without a lid, no way to check on the cat, and no air holes. That cat is dead. It was always going to die.

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      18 hours ago

      Going to, but there was no given time frame. So you don’t know if it is dead, yet

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        15 hours ago

        By the time you ask the question, you are unquestionably sick, sadistic, & cruel because no one lives long enough to be otherwise.

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      13 hours ago

      Are you also dead because you’re guaranteed to die eventually? It’s not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you’re observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can’t be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the same time.