Inside is safer; outside is funner. Cats want both, simultaneously.
My 5 cats are close to achieving that state via their sneaky feline quantum entanglement experiments, especially Ollie. She’s neither here, nor there, but everywhere.
Schrodinger’s experiment has nothing to do with cats. It is a thought experiment. The subject could be a dog, a rat, a pigeon, or a Straight Dope poster.
That aside, stepdaughter 2.0’s cat managed to blunder outside, and didn’t want to get off the steps, “because the ground is dirty”.
This is true. Hence “miaow” from the back door; open door. Cat comes in, licks fur, swaggers to the front door, miaows to be let out, all within the timeframe of 0:30.
Schrödinger’s cat is obviously simultaneously inside and outside of the house and miaowing to be elsewhere.