Some remarks on an experiment suggesting quantum-like behavior of cognitive entities and formulation of an abstract quantum mechanical formalism to describe cognitive entity and its dynamics

Conte, Elio; Todarello, Orlando; Federici, Antonio; Vitiello, F; Lopane, Michele; Khrennikov, Andrei; Zbilut, Joseph P.

doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2005.09.061

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“…This is the essential peculiarity that we aim to investigate in the present paper. A contribution to the problem on the existence of quantum wave functions and quantum interference effects in biological dynamics and in mental states arose years ago (Conte, 1983;Khrennikov, 2001;Conte et al, -2007. In particular, by Khrennikov, the problem was extended to the so called calculus of contextual probabilities.…”

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Testing Quantum Consciousness

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2008

Neuroquantology

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We give here a review of the experiments that we performed in the last few years to conclude that mentals states follow quantum mechanics. As theoretical basis we give explanation of the quantum interference effects, quantum probabilities, and a posteriori reconstruction of quantum wave functions by the approach that was previously introduced by us. In the cases that we study, the classical formula of total probability does not hold true in quantum systems unless a quantum interference terms is added. All the experiments were carried out on normal subjects during perception and cognition of ambiguous figures. The results confirmed the presence of such quantum interference effect also for mental states. From here our unequivocal conclusion that mental states follow quantum mechanics. A position of quantum mechanics as Giano Bifronte, the two faced God of mythology, is discussed with respect to its role in the analysis and characterization of mental entities.

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“…Still other contributions are due, for instance, to Vitiello, Khrennikov et al, [12], and to Busemeyer et al, [13]. In particular, in this last paper the authors confront Markov models of human decision-making with other models somehow connected to quantum mechanics.…”

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A Quantum-Like View to a Generalized Two Players Game

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2015

Int J Theor Phys

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This paper consider the possibility of using some quantum tools in decision making strategies. In particular, we consider here a dynamical open quantum system helping two players, G 1 and G 2 , to take their decisions in a specific context. We see that, within our approach, the final choices of the players do not depend in general on their initial mental states, but they are driven essentially by the environment which interacts with them. The model proposed here also considers interactions of different nature between the two players, and it is simple enough to allow for an analytical solution of the equations of motion.

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“…with U evolution operator (of course given by us in [13] as member of the ( ) i A S Clifford algebra, exchanges preparation representation and measurement representation. Consequently, quantum collapse is not "attached by hand" to the fundamental deterministic evolution of a quantum system, as of course we demonstrated in [3], it corresponds to the cybernetic sequence coding-transmittingdecoding.…”

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Additional Comments Added to Our Recent Answer to G. Ghirardi

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2015

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Recently we published on International Journal of Theoretical Physics an answer to G. Ghirardi relating a paper published by this author in 1999. Since the argument is so complex and articulated, in the present paper we add further comments relating in particular the matter of the quantum collapse as we have elaborated it in our previous work using only Clifford algebra and thus reaching the basic result that it is a mechanism involving only information with a cybernetic collapse and retrocollapse dynamics as first it was introduced by Costa de Beauregard. We evidence as quantum collapse involves directly our psyche and our consciousness that of course is by itself an entity selecting alternatives on the basis of quantum rules. According to our previous experiments we also add comments on the possibility to estimate quantum interference at the level of perception and cognitive dynamics and reconstruct the wave function giving the possibility such result to discriminate between pure quantum superposition of states and mixtures just to re-confirm the role of quantum mechanics at the basic structure of mental entities.

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Some remarks on an experiment suggesting quantum-like behavior of cognitive entities and formulation of an abstract quantum mechanical formalism to describe cognitive entity and its dynamics

Cited by 109 publications

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Testing Quantum Consciousness

Testing Quantum Consciousness

A Quantum-Like View to a Generalized Two Players Game

Additional Comments Added to Our Recent Answer to G. Ghirardi

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