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ok, everyone knows the paradox in a box theory right? you have a box, have an animal (a cat preferable) and some "cat" poison. put the cat, and the poison inside the box and seal it up to where you cannot see anything anymore. the poison is not time-based or anything. its instant death. i ask you "is the cat dead or alive right now"
what would you say?

the correct answer is that it is both dead and alive at the same time. have you ever heard of "seeing is believing"? well this is something that has a paradoxical fork road in its way. you see the cat, you see the poison, and you see the box. you acknowledge the fact that the cat is in there but cannot determine anything out of it.
the reason its both dead and alive at the same time is because of this;
A) you know that the cat has to be dead
or
B) you know that the cat has to be alive.
apply A or B to C which is
C) visualization verification

you cannot see that the cat is alive anymore than you can if its dead, BUT (heres the paradox) you CAN see both images at the same time with trial and error, assumptions, thoughts, or any other resources you use to create the act of thinking in your mind. so with that in mind

A+B=C is false
AB=C is true.