no code implementations • 12 Feb 2023 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Argëlles, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente, Sandro Sozzo
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 lower than the entropy of the component sub-entities.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2022 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran, Sandro Sozzo
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 'entropy' can be consistently introduced in human language and, more generally, in human culture.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Information Retrieval +3
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2022 • Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran
In the present work, we build on this result, and introduce a powerful radiation quantization scheme for human cognition.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2021 • 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.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Information Retrieval +2
no code implementations • 28 Mar 2021 • 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 on the level of the concepts, i. e., all eleven animals are identical and indistinguishable, gives rise to a statistical structure of the Bose-Einstein type similar to how Bose-Einstein statistics is present for identical and indistinguishable quantum particles.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2021 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente, Sandro Sozzo
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 eats the Food}.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2019 • 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 temperature.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2019 • Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente, Sandro Sozzo
We work out a quantum-theoretic model in complex Hilbert space of a recently performed test on co-occurrencies of two concepts and their combination in retrieval processes on specific corpuses of documents.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2018 • Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente
We show that data collected from corpuses of documents violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt version of Bell's inequality (CHSH inequality) and therefore indicate the presence of quantum entanglement in their structure.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2017 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguelles, Lester Beltran, Lyneth Beltran, Isaac Distrito, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
We elaborate a quantum model for the meaning associated with corpora of written documents, like the pages forming the World Wide Web.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2016 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran, Lyneth Beltran, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
The mathematical formalism of quantum theory exhibits significant effectiveness when applied to cognitive phenomena that have resisted traditional (set theoretical) modeling.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2016 • Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran, Lyneth Beltran, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
Two major quantum approaches have been put forward: the first assumes that respondents use a two-step sequential reasoning and that the fallacy results from the presence of 'question order effects'; the second assumes that respondents evaluate the cognitive situation as a whole and that the fallacy results from the 'emergence of new meanings', as an 'effect of overextension' in the conceptual conjunction.