[TinyTree]

So my personal opinion is that the idea that the cat exists in an undefined state is pure bunk. It was a cool idea to show that the whole notion of understanding quantum mechanics was not clear.

Basically, I think everyone, including physicists, are confused by quantum mechanics. So no one knows what they are talking about really and then start asking for crazy explanations to explain the experiment.

Here is my view at this moment- it matters not whether or not an "intelligent" agent or a "conscious mind" perceives a quantum experiment.

It only matters whether or not the "quantum interference" is embedded in some other part of the universe. If it interacts with some other part of the universe which is in a "quantumly stuck" state (this other part of the universe is integrally tied in with other parts which are all tied together), then it loses its wavelike characteristic at that time. It has nothing to do with a conscious observer, and I challenge you to point me to an experiment which somehow depends on the conscious observer looking at the results or not.

You could prove this to yourself by having a computer observe some events and then report to you if it is behaving as a wave or particle- not telling you the specifics of its position or anything, but merely the type of observation.

The hypothetical cat would never exist in a superposition of states- because it is a "quantumly stuck" object and then