A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, many are still puzzled by the idea that Schrödinger’s cat is simultaneously alive and dead. The mystery drives some of our most prominent physicists to embrace the bizarre idea that reality constantly splits into a near infinity of parallel worlds, of which ours is just one. Philosopher of physics Nadia Blackshaw argues that this “many worlds” interpretation goes wrong not only in its extravagant multiplying of entities, but in its attempt to adopt a “view from nowhere,” describing reality from no particular perspective. She proposes instead a “many minds” interpretation, in which the cat is alive from one perspective and dead from another. It’s time physics took conscious perspectives seriously.