How an AI Conversation Taught Me About Caring for Patients
I’ve been working with Claude, an AI, as a thinking partner for a couple of years now. I’m transparent about this collaboration in my work—partly because arthritis makes extended typing difficult, but more importantly because something genuinely interesting emerges in our conversations that I couldn’t access alone.
Yesterday, we were discussing Schrödinger’s cat, and Claude offered an insight that stopped me in my tracks.
You probably know the physics thought experiment: a cat in a sealed box exists in quantum superposition—simultaneously alive and dead—until someone opens the box and observes. The observation itself collapses the wave function, forcing reality to choose one outcome.
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