Wavefunction collapse is the mechanism in which a system, by interacting with its environ- ment (which includes a measuring apparatus), is transformed from a superposition of states into a definite (classical) state with a well-defined value of a given measurable quantity.

Wave function collapse is a algorithm that can procedurally generate images, text, audio and almost anything that follows a pattern of a simple set of initial parameters and a set of rules.

Whereas many physicists have generally interpreted the wavefunction as a statistical tool that reflects our ignorance of the particles being measured, the authors of the latest paper argue that, instead, it is physically real.

A live cat goes in the box. The cat knows it is alive. From the cat's point of view, the wavefunction has collapsed and the atom has not decayed. From the human's point of view, outside the box, the wavefunction has not collapsed and the cat might be alive or dead.