Wanted, dead or alive (not dead and alive) http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/scientific-american-article-explains-a- way-to-resolve-quantum-state-paradoxes-123.php
<<The weird part is this: As long as the box is sealed, you have to consider the cat to be both dead and alive. That’s what life is like in the quantum state—at least according to classical interpretation of quantum mechanics. As long as a particle has an even chance of being in one state or another, you have to consider it to be in both states at once. QBism does away with such head-shaking weirdness, von Baeyer writes, by dealing with the “wave function,” a mathematical expression of objects in the quantum state. Traditional explanations treat the wave function as a real property of the object. By contrast, QBism, he explains, treats the wave function as a mathematical tool and nothing more. Under QBism, the wave function has no bearing on the reality of the object being studied, just as the long-division problem to calculate your car’s fuel consumption has no effect on the gas mileage. Remove the wave function, and the paradoxes and absurdities vanish, he says.>> ------------------------------- Can Quantum Bayesianism Fix the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics? A new version of quantum theory sweeps away the bizarre paradoxes of the microscopic world. The cost? Quantum information exists only in your imagination preview http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-quantum-beyesnism-fix- paradoxes-quantum-mechanics
