Originally Posted by
Sageous
You might want to read that passage again, UM.
When I read it, it says exactly what I said above, if much more coherently. The superposition of states only exists on our end of the equation, because we cannot know what happened to the cat until we break open the box.... whatever happened still happened, but we just can't know what happened -- create a definition of the cat's state -- until we break open the box. The cat was going about its merry way (as was the electron or photon) regardless of our involvement, but, since we cannot create a definitive state for the cat until our involvement (breaking open the box and observing the cat's state) enters the formula, we must define the unobserved cat as being both alive and dead at the same time.
I think the bottom line for me, and for the description above, is that there is no cat, just a thought experiment, so humans are not being raised above anything, and the cat's existence is not defined by us, because all we can do is observe.