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Why are probabilistic laws governing quantum mechanics and neurobiology?
We address the question: Why are dynamical laws governing in quantum
mechanics and in neuroscience of probabilistic nature instead of being
deterministic? We discuss some ideas showing that the probabilistic option
offers advantages over the deterministic one.Comment: 40 pages, 8 fig
Quantum processes, space-time representation and brain dynamics
The recent controversy of applicability of quantum formalism to brain
dynamics has been critically analysed. The prerequisites for any type of
quantum formalism or quantum field theory is to investigate whether the
anatomical structure of brain permits any kind of smooth geometric notion like
Hilbert structure or four dimensional Minkowskian structure for quantum field
theory. The present understanding of brain function clearly denies any kind of
space-time representation in Minkowskian sense. However, three dimensional
space and one time can be assigned to the neuromanifold and the concept of
probabilistic geometry is shown to be appropriate framework to understand the
brain dynamics. The possibility of quantum structure is also discussed in this
framework.Comment: Latex, 28 page
Unnatural Selection: A new formal approach to punctuated equilibrium in economic systems
Generalized Darwinian evolutionary theory has emerged as central to the description of economic process (e.g., Aldrich et. al., 2008). Here we demonstrate that, just as Darwinian principles provide necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for understanding the dynamics of social entities, in a similar manner the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory provide another set of necessary conditions that constrain the evolution of socioeconomic process. These latter constraints can, however, easily be formulated as a statistics-like analytic toolbox for the study of empirical data that is consistent with a generalized Darwinism, and this is no small thing
A graph-based mathematical morphology reader
This survey paper aims at providing a "literary" anthology of mathematical
morphology on graphs. It describes in the English language many ideas stemming
from a large number of different papers, hence providing a unified view of an
active and diverse field of research
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