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Something with essays like The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics, in which, I believe, we first meet his Cat.
Well, there is and there isn’t.
I don’t know about a collection - Amazon does not seem to have one - but probably his most important non-technical work (more so than the cat) was What is Life?, which had a huge influence on the founders of molecular biology.
If you don’t know what life is, how can you tell whether your cat is dead or alive anyway?
Even if I don’t know what life is–an open question still–I could still postulate either state of the cat, and, of course, his “shmeared” state (to use Schroedinger’s expression).
ETA: Plus one scratches the other doesn’t.
Yeah, that was a joke - maybe not a very funny one - hence the tiny type.
But anyway, considering both the cat story and What is Life?, it is interesting to see just how much Schroedinger’s non-technical writings actually had on the future development of science. I wonder how many other major scientists’ non-technical stuff can equal that impact? (Though I suppose it depends what you count as non-technical: I guess, at a pinch, Galileo’s Dialog on the Two Great World Systems could be counted, or Descarte’s Le Monde and L’Homme.) It certainly seems odd that there does not seem to be a proper Schroedinger collection available. Perhaps there is not much else he wrote in this vein, but that would make the huge impact of these two pieces all the more remarkable.
There was, but the cat ate it.
There goes my homework. Honest.
There are other “non technical” essays I’ll look up; I have the cites, but not the easy access, to, eg, Proceedings of the Royal something something Society.
I’ll post soon for some egs available at the Schroedinger website.
I’m doubtful that these essays – except for the popularization of the Cat – have any pathbreaking value whatsoever. They are written ex post facto after the scholarly value has been worked over to a fare-thee-well. (I got to write fare-thee-well! Yay!)