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Identifying Quantum Mechanical Statistics in Italian Corpora
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +2
We present a theoretical and empirical investigation of the statistical behaviour of the words in a text produced by human language. To this aim, we analyse the word distribution o…
The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Some Insights from the Research on Human Language
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguēlles, Lester Beltran +2
Identical systems, or entities, are indistinguishable in quantum mechanics (QM), and the symmetrization postulate rules the possible statistical distributions of a large number of…
Entanglement as a Method to Reduce Uncertainty
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Argëlles, Lester Beltran +2
In physics, entanglement 'reduces' the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) entropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lo…
Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +1
Inspired by foundational studies in classical and quantum physics, and by information retrieval studies in quantum information theory, we prove that the notions of 'energy' and 'en…
A Planck Radiation and Quantization Scheme for Human Cognition and Language
Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran
As a result of the identification of 'identity' and 'indistinguishability' and strong experimental evidence for the presence of the associated Bose-Einstein statistics in human cog…
Are Words the Quanta of Human Language? Extending the Domain of Quantum Cognition
Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran
In previous research, we showed that 'texts that tell a story' exhibit a statistical structure that is not Maxwell-Boltzmann but Bose-Einstein. Our explanation is that this is due…
Quantum Bose-Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language
Lester Beltran
We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a 'number concept' plus a 'substantive concept', such as 'eleven animals,' the identity and indistinguishability present…
Entanglement in Cognition violating Bell Inequalities Beyond Cirel'son's Bound
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +2
We present the results of two tests where a sample of human participants were asked to make judgements about the conceptual combinations {\it The Animal Acts} and {\it The Animal e…
Quantum Structure in Cognition: Human Language as a Boson Gas of Entangled Words
Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran
We model a piece of text of human language telling a story by means of the quantum structure describing a Bose gas in a state close to a Bose-Einstein condensate near absolute zero…
Quantum Theory Methods as a Possible Alternative for the Double-Blind Gold Standard of Evidence-Based Medicine: Outlining a New Research Program
Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente +4
We motivate the possibility of using notions and methods derived from quantum physics, and more specifically from the research field known as 'quantum cognition', to optimally mode…
Spin and Wind Directions II: A Bell State Quantum Model
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4
In the first half of this two-part article, we analyzed a cognitive psychology experiment where participants were asked to select pairs of directions that they considered to be the…
Spin and Wind Directions I: Identifying Entanglement in Nature and Cognition
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4
We present a cognitive psychology experiment where participants were asked to select pairs of spatial directions that they considered to be the best example of 'Two Different Wind…