The Cat Is Alive and Dead Only to Us From the Outside of the Box

The cat is alive and dead only to us from the outside of the box, right? And what they're asking is why doesn't the cat collapse the uncertainty? If the cat is a big curious creature and a classical object, it can't be in multiple states. Then why doesn't it collapse the possibilities and force this atom to either decay or not decay? That's essentially their question. So we're in the era of philosophy because we don't have experiments we can do to distinguish between these various ideas.