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Qi Cao
Professor Hodson
ENG 130-22
01 February 2017
What We Think? What We See? What You Get?
Schrödinger’s cat is an experiment that imagined a cat as being enclosed in a box with a
radioactive source and a poison that would be released when the source unpredictably emits
radiation. The cat would then be considered simultaneously both dead and alive according to
quantum mechanics until the box being opened and the cat being observed.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me. I always thought people would
be the same with each other. I ignored all the factors, such as age, race, culture, and education.
This thought has driven me for my entire childhood and built my basic recognition of people. I
was wrong with the judgment of others, even we are not supposed to judge others, but this
behavior is engraved in everyone’s personality and behavior. Later, I found that people are more
complicated than what I expected, such factors as age, race, culture, and education have led them
to have different experiences, ideologies, lives and manners. The differences are the uncertain
variables in the humanity and civilization. That is also the simplest element that our society made
of.
There is no such thing called stochastics in macrocosm. Everything happens due to a
certain cause. If people want to apply the stochastics of microcosm into macrocosm, it would be
the appearance exactly like Schrödinger’s cat. The characteristics of microcosm stochastics
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decides the fate of the cat: life or death. The result would not affected by any known or unknown
variables.
People would lose minds and have different reactions when they face the emergency
situations based on their own attributes, such as what they need or want. Usually, the unexpected
things would lead people to make decisions immediately without thinking the influences that
may be caused by the possible consequences. There would be always a certain result that is
either good or bad. For many thing driven by the primitive impulsion or uncertain variables
would result in a complex form. It could be something good with something bad, something
better or something worse. The result would be uncertain by the different substances. This is one
of the most interesting state of objects and minds in the study of psychology.
