6 research outputs found
The Pet-Fish problem on the World-Wide Web
We identify the presence of Pet-Fish problem situations and the corresponding
Guppy effect of concept theory on the World-Wide Web. For this purpose, we
introduce absolute weights for words expressing concepts and relative weights
between words expressing concepts, and the notion of 'meaning bound' between
two words expressing concepts, making explicit use of the conceptual structure
of the World-Wide Web. The Pet-Fish problem occurs whenever there are exemplars
- in the case of Pet and Fish these can be Guppy or Goldfish - for which the
meaning bound with respect to the conjunction is stronger than the meaning
bounds with respect to the individual concepts.Comment: 8 page
Quantum Theory and Conceptuality: Matter, Stories, Semantics and Space-Time
We elaborate the new interpretation of quantum theory that we recently
proposed, according to which quantum particles are considered conceptual
entities mediating between pieces of ordinary matter which are considered to
act as memory structures for them. Our aim is to identify what is the
equivalent for the human cognitive realm of what physical space-time is for the
realm of quantum particles and ordinary matter. For this purpose, we identify
the notion of 'story' as the equivalent within the human cognitive realm of
what ordinary matter is in the physical quantum realm, and analyze the role
played by the logical connectives of disjunction and conjunction with respect
to the notion of locality. Similarly to what we have done in earlier
investigations on this new quantum interpretation, we use the specific
cognitive environment of the World-Wide Web to elucidate the comparisons we
make between the human cognitive realm and the physical quantum realm.Comment: 14 page
La mecánica cuántica y la conceptualidad: materia, historias, semántica y espacio-tiempo
We elaborate the new interpretation of quantum theory that we recently proposed, according to which quantum particles are considered conceptual entities mediating between pieces of ordinary matter which are considered to act as memory structures for them. Our aim is to identify what is the equivalent for the human cognitive realm of what physical space-time is for the realm of quantum particles and ordinary matter. For this purpose, we identify the notion of 'story' as the equivalent within the human cognitive realm of what ordinary matter is in the physical quantum realm, and analyze the role played by the logical connectives of disjunction and conjunction with respect to the notion of locality. Similarly to what we have done in earlier investigations on this new interpretation of quantum theory, we use the specific cognitive environment of the Internet to elucidate the comparisons we make between the human cognitive realm and the physical quantum realm.Elaboramos aquí una nueva interpretación propuesta recientemente de la teoría cuántica, según la cual las partículas cuánticas son consideradas como entidades conceptuales que median entre los pedazos de materia ordinaria los cuales son considerados como estructuras de memoria para ellos. Nuestro objetivo es identificar qué es lo equivalente para el ámbito cognitivo humano de lo que el espacio-tiempo físico es para el ámbito de las partículas cuánticas y de la materia ordinaria. Para ello, se identifica la noción de "historia" como el equivalente en la esfera cognitiva humana de lo que la materia ordinaria es en el ámbito físico cuántico. Analizamos también el papel desempeñado por los conectivos lógicos de disyunción y de conjunción con respecto a la noción de localidad. De manera similar a lo que hemos hecho en investigaciones anteriores referidas a esa nueva interpretación de la teoría cuántica, se utiliza el entorno cognitivo específico de la Internet para dilucidar las comparaciones que hacemos entre el ámbito cognitivo humano y el ámbito físico cuántico
Quantum Structure in Cognition: Human Language as a Boson Gas of Entangled Words
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. For this we introduce energy levels
for the words (concepts) used in the story and we also introduce the new notion
of 'cogniton' as the quantum of human thought. Words (concepts) are then
cognitons in different energy states as it is the case for photons in different
energy states, or states of different radiative frequency, when the considered
boson gas is that of the quanta of the electromagnetic field. We show that
Bose-Einstein statistics delivers a very good model for these pieces of texts
telling stories, both for short stories and for long stories of the size of
novels. We analyze an unexpected connection with Zipf's law in human language,
the Zipf ranking relating to the energy levels of the words, and the
Bose-Einstein graph coinciding with the Zipf graph. We investigate the issue of
'identity and indistinguishability' from this new perspective and conjecture
that the way one can easily understand how two of 'the same concepts' are
'absolutely identical and indistinguishable' in human language is also the way
in which quantum particles are absolutely identical and indistinguishable in
physical reality, providing in this way new evidence for our conceptuality
interpretation of quantum theory.Comment: 45 pages, 11 figure