"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
The best answer I ever heard to this question was given by Coach on Cheers:
"Well, if no one was in the forest, how do we know the tree fell?"
Anyway, I think Muron is right. I think the Schroedinger's Cat illustration gets wierd when all sorts of funny ontological consequences are inferred from it on the macro level, like the supposition that, until the wave function is broken, the cat must be considered both alive and dead. When I think of Scroedinger's Cat, I consider it to be just a macro-level illustration of uncertainity and observational interference at the quantum level, but not one necessarily to be taken as literally as the Copenhagen Interpretation would have it.
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