We Are Never Having a Mathematical Experience: Resolving the Schrödinger Confusion

This component houses We Are Never Having a Mathematical Experience: Resolving the Schrödinger Confusion, a Tier 1.5 interpretive bridge paper that provides a philosophy- and physics-facing entry ramp into Universal Collapse Theory. Rather than proposing new quantum dynamics, it argues that the Schrödinger-cat paradox arises from a category error: mistaking a property of our mathematical descriptions for a property of physical reality. The paper reframes superposition as epistemic rather than ontological at the macroscopic level, clarifies the proper role of decoherence and record-writing, and connects the measurement problem to UCT’s broader account of collapse as continuous resolution under constraint. It serves as a clean interpretive companion to WP01–WP02 while preserving the standard formalism of quantum mechanics.