the nature of a thought experiment

[1123581321]

hi,

 

i was wondering if schrodingers cat (paradox) would be classified as consciousness..

[insane_alien]

schrodingers cat isn't a paradox. and it has nothing to do with conciousness

[jimmydasaint]

I think you need to do some further reading 'beyond':

 

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following diabolical device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of one hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.

 

Schrodinger's cat

 

What is consciousness? Some philosophers have contended that "qualia," or an experiential medium from which consciousness is derived, exists as a fundamental component of reality. Whitehead, for example, described the universe as being comprised of "occasions of experience." To examine this possibility scientifically, the very nature of physical reality must be re-examined. We must come to terms with the physics of space-time--as is described by Einstein's general theory of relativity

 

Penrose Hameroff Consciousness Model

[Johanluus]

i was wondering if schrodingers cat (paradox) would be classified as consciousness..

 

just classifying consciousness is the real question

[swansont]

As insane_alien has indicated, the cat experiment is/would not be not a test of consciousness, and the nature of consciousness isn't a physics question.