Imagine you're going into a voice meeting with 50 different people, except every one of their voices sounds similar, how hard would it be to have a productive meeting? Now imagine learning 50 different subjects from 50 different PDFs that all look similar. This last example, however, is our reality.

EXAMPLE:

(Will a single sentence form from two people talking in succession?)

• Person 1: "Hello, how are you?"
• Person 2: "Okay sir, thanks how are you?"
• Persons 1 + 2 becomes: "Are you okay, sir."

How hard would it be to memorize, comprehend and respond?

What would be the implications in terms of neurology, personal distress, memory formation, etc?

It is named after Schrödinger's Cat, a quantum mechanics thought experiment - where the cat is considered to be in an unknown state, described in physics as superposition. Just as the cat's state is unknown, so may be the context of a 'seemingly' coherent communication within a Schrödinger's Meeting. The example above shows, if you cannot distinguish between the two speakers' voices then the fundamental mechanics required for coherent communication have the opportunity to break down or be absent entirely. "Person 1 + 2" does not exist, and did not say "Are you okay, sir." as discussed in the example above, however, it is possible for a listener to hear that artificial sentence and label it as intentional and coherent.

The Schrödinger's Meeting example highlights the importance of stimuli distinguishability in our everyday lives. Investigations into stimuli distinguishability and homogeneity, particularly regarding digital text comprehension, is the groundbreaking work of my team. Further materials and research papers related to the topic can be found on my profile.

Environmental stimuli distinguishability as it pertains to the general public is a massively underexplored area of neurology and information theory. My team and I look forward to hearing others' reasoning regarding the possible effects of a Schrödinger's Meeting and/or the effects of sensory distinguishability on the modern human.

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Aside from the significant implications on neurology and human health, Schrödinger's Meeting may further prove useful in information science, by helping to answer the question of: What is the exact definition of a "communication"? Has the hybrid "Person 1+2" and their artificial sentence communicated? Many people would be hesitant to define this hybrid-sentence as a communication, however, the hybrid-sentence is certainly intelligible to the listener and therefore communicable. To paraphrase, the current definition of "communication" as described by Oxford is a process involving the transmission of information. By this definition, the hybrid sentence is certainly a communication.

At a glance, this thought experiment may seem pointless. However, it highlights the importance of defining exactly what "communications" are.

In addition to digital text-technology advancement, answer(s) to this question may provide mechanical insight into important properties of large data sets, such as metadata, quantum computation datasets, and image-capture rendering. Additionally, Schrodinger's Meeting may provide insight into composite waveform systems, providing context for deciphering probabilistic rates at which coincidentally-coherent noise may form in a given wave-mixing data set.

If possible, as mentioned above, defining a firm definition for what makes a "communication" separable from coherent noise would be very important.