The tree which we hear becomesan observed event because we heard it. The tree which we assume to make sound is a presumed event because we have no record of it and are extrapolating the event outcome based on previous events. And Schrodinger's cat is not about observation changing reality, it's about reality being indeterminable without observation, existing in what he described as a superstate of both yes and no.
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