Welcome to the ultimate thought experiment in the realm of philosophy. You are standing in front of a cat box, but is there a cat in the box? The answer, my friend, is not so simple.
As a superposition of cat-ness, the possibilities exist in multiple states simultaneously. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but with more fur.
But, if you open the box and observe the cat, you collapse the wavefunction, and the cat's state becomes fixed. Ah, the eternal conundrum of cat-astrophe!
Observe the cat! and see for yourself.
Or, if you're feeling lazy, just ignore it and let the cat remain in superposition.
Remember, the only way to truly understand the paradox is to understand it, but that's not going to happen, ever.
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