I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, now that I’ve learned the concept of Schrodinger’s Cat, I can’t stop relating it to everything I see, read, or learn. SO there I was, *dramatic music ignites,* writing my essay, *dun dun dun,* when I came across the chapter heading in “They Say, I Say” titled “YES/ NO/ OKAY, BUT.” Within this chapter that discusses how to disagree with an idea, appears to be a paragraph titled “AGREE AND DISAGREE SIMULTANEOUSLY.” And this, my friends, is the concept of Schrodinger’s Cat.
“The last option is often our favorite way of responding. One thing we particularly like about agreeing and disagreeing simultaneously is that it helps us get beyond the kind of “is too”/ “is not? exchanges that often characterize the disputes of young children and the more polarized shouting matches of talk radio and TV.” (Graff and Birkenstein 64).
Schrodinger’s Cat is the notion of a cat being both dead and alive in a box until we open the box and look for ourselves. In a previous blog post of mine, I went more in depth in how I perceive this idea, however, when reflecting “They Say, I Say” off of this concept, we can look at Schrodinger’s Cat in a much less vague, perceptive sense, and instead, a literal, and concrete way. We can apply Schrodinger’s Cat to this concept of agreeing and disagreeing at the same time by looking at what an author says and feeling to controversial sentiments simultaneously, and confirming that those are valid feelings with the concept of Schrodinger’s Cat.