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It's a bit complicated for a sod like me.The difference being that light changes its behaviour based on whether or not it is observed. The cat doesn't, it's only both alive and dead theoretically or philosophically, nothing in that thought experiment suggests that observing the cat changes the outcome like it does for light in the double-slit experiment
But, The cat does change it's behaviour based on our observation.
The cat is both alive and dead, and it isn't until we open the box that we create the outcome of the cat being alive or dead.
As in, we kill the cat, by opening the box to find that it's dead.
I understand what you mean, that we create a set outcome by observing light.
I've always thought of Schrodinger's cat as an easy explanation of QM, and the double slit experiment, so I'm having a hard time understanding how they aren't conflated.