You Are Not Schrödinger's Cat, Nor a Subordinate of Your Bazi

Today I saw many people advising 'don't have your fortune told,' and I think that advice is correct. But there's one type of argument I really can't agree with:

They use Schrödinger's cat from quantum mechanics as a metaphor, saying the fortune teller is the observer and the person seeking fortune is the 'observed,' as if once you are observed, your fate collapses into a fixed trajectory.

It sounds profound, but it's actually wrong.

Let's set aside the fortune teller's skill for now; even if they are extremely good, what they observe is always the Bazi—the time information of your birth moment.

But they are not observing you as a 'person'—your thoughts, behaviors, experiences, circumstances, and even your free will.

You need to know that there are only 560,000 combinations of Bazi, and even with gender distinction, it's just over a million. But China has 1.4 billion people, so thousands share the same Bazi.

Therefore, what they see is not 'you' as an independent individual, but only some information carried by the time segment of your birth. There is a coupling relationship between you and that time point, but that does not mean that time segment equals the entirety of your life.

In the end, you are not your Bazi, just as the cat is not the box itself.

If we insist on using the metaphor of Schrödinger's cat, it's more like—

Fortune-telling is akin to the cat hearing someone outside say it is 'dead' and then reacting.

If it were truly alive, wouldn't it know in its own heart?

So, it's not about being observed, but about self-abandonment:

You hand over your power of choice to someone who talks about 'fate.'

Fortune-telling is not something you can't engage with, but you must not be obsessed or take it seriously.

You think you are the cat, but in reality, you have already walked out of the box; you just dare not face the freedom of 'choice' that you possess.