the musings of Schrodinger's cat
Quantum mechanics operates on the premise that the wave function of an object only gives the probability that it will be in any given place at any given time with any given momentum. As with Schrodinger's cat, it may be alive, dead, everywhere at once or nowhere at all. The particle has to be treated as if it can occupy all possible states, including non-existence until its wave function is collapsed by observation. Only then can it be considered real.
I've felt extremely isolated for the past two months. Though I exist in my own context and will take this opportunity to improve upon that skill, I had become accustomed to existing in the context of other people as well. Time and again, my friends reminded me that I was real. Gone is that context. Though there are plenty of people that I interact with and who collapse my wave function in the most literal sense, I have no emotional connections here. The lives of the people around me are no different because I am in them. If I have no agency, then my affect on others is equivalent to that of nonexistence. This is an exaggeration of course, but not much of one. Things should pick up once people start coming back to school and I have 30,000+ new potential friends. Until then, whatever contact I can get with that former social context will have to do. So by reading this, you have collapsed my wave function and proved that I exist. Thank you.
I've felt extremely isolated for the past two months. Though I exist in my own context and will take this opportunity to improve upon that skill, I had become accustomed to existing in the context of other people as well. Time and again, my friends reminded me that I was real. Gone is that context. Though there are plenty of people that I interact with and who collapse my wave function in the most literal sense, I have no emotional connections here. The lives of the people around me are no different because I am in them. If I have no agency, then my affect on others is equivalent to that of nonexistence. This is an exaggeration of course, but not much of one. Things should pick up once people start coming back to school and I have 30,000+ new potential friends. Until then, whatever contact I can get with that former social context will have to do. So by reading this, you have collapsed my wave function and proved that I exist. Thank you.