A macroscopic violation of no-signaling in time inequalities? How to test temporal entanglement with behavioral observables

Tressoldi, Patrizio; Maier, Markus; Büechner, Vanessa L.; Khrennikov, Andrei

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01061

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“…In line with one of the most shared theoretical accounts, our results may be explained in the theoretical framework of the Predictive Anticipatory Activity (PAA) of Mossbridge et al (2014). The underlying assumption of this kind of empirical evidence maintains that PAA might be thought of as an unconscious anticipation of a conscious future events, suggesting the possibility of quantum-like temporal entanglement effects in human physiological processes (Hameroff et al, 2012;Fisher, 2015;Jedlicka, 2017;Tressoldi et al, 2015).…”

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EEG anticipation of random high and low arousal faces and sounds

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Background: In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of the anticipatory activity of randomly presented faces and sounds of both high and low arousal level by recording EEG activity with a high spatial resolution EEG system. Methods: we preregistered the following three hypotheses: - a contingent Negative Variation (CNV) difference in the amplitude voltage between auditory vs faces stimuli; a greater amplitude voltage in the CNV, in high arousal stimuli vs low arousal stimuli, both in auditory and faces stimuli, in the temporal window from 0 to 1000 ms before the stimulus presentation; - in the time window from 0 to 1000 ms a sensory specific activation at the brain source level in the temporal lobe and auditory cortex before the presentation of an auditory stimulus and an activation of occipital area, dedicated to the elaboration of visual stimuli, before the presentation of of faces .Results: By using a preregistered, hypothesis-driven approach, we found no statistically significant differences in the CNV due to an overly conservative correction for multiple comparisons for the control of Type I error. By contrast, using a data-driven approach based on a machine learning algorithm (Support Vector Machine), we found a significantly larger amplitude in the occipital cluster of electrodes before the presentation of faces with respect to sounds, along with a larger amplitude in the right auditory cortex before the presentation of sounds with respect to faces. Furthermore, we found greater CNV activity in the late prestimulus interval for high vs. low-arousal sounds stimuli in the left centro-posterior scalp regions. Conclusions: These findings, although preliminary, seem to support the hypothesis that the neurophysiological anticipatory activity of random events is specifically driven by either the sensory characteristics or the arousal level of future stimuli.

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EEG anticipation of random high and low arousal faces and sounds

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Mento²,

Semenzato³

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“…The term retrocausal, refers to a condition in which the temporal causal links are inverted. Although there are, as yet, few experimental confirmations in psychology [40], in physics there is a vast literature about retrocausal effects in quantum mechanics [41,42]. The theoretical interpretation, reported here is a possible explanation of how the brain is capable of anticipating stimuli that are considered unpredictable.…”

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Driving with Intuition: A Preregistered Study about the EEG Anticipation of Simulated Random Car Accidents

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The study of neural pre-stimulus or “anticipatory” activity opened a new window for understanding how the brain actively constructs the forthcoming reality. Usually, experimental paradigms designed to study anticipatory activity make use of stimuli. The purpose of the present study is to expand the study of neural anticipatory activity upon the temporal occurrence of dichotomic, statistically unpredictable (random) stimuli within an ecological experimental paradigm. To this purpose, we used a simplified driving simulation including two possible, randomly-presented trial types: a car crash end trial and a no car crash end trial. Event Related Potentials (ERP) were extracted -3,000 ms before stimulus onset. We identified a fronto-central negativity starting around 1,000 ms before car crash presentation. By contrast, a whole-scalp distributed positivity characterized the anticipatory activity observed before the end of the trial in the no car crash end condition. The present data are in line with the hypothesis that the brain may also anticipate dichotomic, statistically unpredictable stimuli, relaying onto different pre-stimulus ERP activity. Possible integration with car-smart-systems is also suggested.

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“…Both theories link unconscious processing to properties of quantum states and conscious moments to the process of measurement, including the establishment of local reality (note that GQT only applies the mathematical rules of quantum mechanics to these types of processes but makes no assumption about the exact physical nature of these processes). Within the unconscious realm, information processing follows quantum rules that involve superpositions [24], as well as spatial [25] and temporal non-locality [14,[26][27][28][29]. The latter could be explained by the hypothesis that the arrow of time may be bidirected at the quantum level and that the directed flow of time, from the past via the present to the future, only occurs in classical reality [14].…”

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A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance

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The term “retroactive avoidance” refers to a special class of effects of future stimulus presentations on past behavioral responses. Specifically, it refers to the anticipatory avoidance of aversive stimuli that were unpredictable through random selection after the response. This phenomenon is supposed to challenge the common view of the arrow of time and the direction of causality. Preliminary evidence of “retroactive avoidance” has been published in mainstream psychological journals and started a heated debate about the robustness and the true existence of this effect. A series of seven experiments published in 2014 in the Journal of Consciousness Studies (Maier et al., 2014) tested the influence of randomly drawn future negative picture presentations on avoidance responses based on key presses preceding them. The final study in that series used a sophisticated quantum-based random stimulus selection procedure and implemented the most severe test of retroactive avoidance within this series. Evidence for the effect, though significant, was meager and anecdotal, Bayes factor (BF 10 ) = 2. The research presented here represents an attempt to exactly replicate the original effect with a high-power ( N = 2004) preregistered multi-lab study. The results indicate that the data favored the null effect (i.e., absence of retroactive avoidance) with a BF 01 = 4.38. Given the empirical strengths of the study, namely its preregistration, multi-lab approach, high power, and Bayesian analysis used, this failed replication questions the validity and robustness of the original findings. Not reaching a decisive level of Bayesian evidence and not including skeptical researchers may be considered limitations of this study. Exploratory analyses of the change in evidence for the effect across time, performed on a post-hoc basis, revealed several potentially interesting anomalies in the data that might guide future research in this area.

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A macroscopic violation of no-signaling in time inequalities? How to test temporal entanglement with behavioral observables

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

EEG anticipation of random high and low arousal faces and sounds

EEG anticipation of random high and low arousal faces and sounds

Driving with Intuition: A Preregistered Study about the EEG Anticipation of Simulated Random Car Accidents

A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance

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