I just realised what Schrodinger was all about. When you measure something, it changes! If you open the box, instead of being half alive/half dead, it will now be one or the other BECAUSE you looked.
it's not half alive or half dead. It's 100% alive and 100% dead ...not a combination, but a superposition of both states existing at the same time.
it kind of only makes sense when speaking about sub atomic particles... but yea. The looking thing collapses the states into one or the other and is less about someone looking than it is about the thing interacting with an outside force that is impacted by the state that is in superposition. So it "sees" it.