no that's not how it works since it is certain that i am being suffocated
in the original I-forgot-how-to-spell-his-name-lol's cat experiment, there are toxic chemicals in the box that could possibly mutate, but they could also stay the same. if they mutate, the beaker breaks and the cat is killed. but if it doesn't, the cat lives. if we have no way of knowing if it's broken then we don't know if the cat is dead or alive, meaning it is both dead AND alive until we investigate