Testing Boundaries of Applicability of Quantum Probabilistic Formalism to Modeling of Cognition: Metaphors of Two and Three Slit Experiments

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• 关键词：Two and three slit experiments ; Sorkin equality ; Probabilistic structure of cognition
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10106
• 期：1
• 页码：49-56
• 丛书名：Quantum Interaction
• ISBN：978-3-319-52289-0
• 卷排序：10106

文摘

Analogy between the two slit experiment in quantum mechanics (QM) and the disjunction effect in psychology led to fruitful applications of the mathematical formalism of quantum probability to cognitive psychology. These quantum-like studies demonstrated that quantum probability (QP) matches better with the experimental statistical data than classical probability (CP). Similar conclusion can be derived from comparing QP and CP models for a variety of other cognitive-psychological effects, e.g., the order effect. However, one may wonder whether QP covers completely cognitive-psychological phenomena or cognition exhibits even more exotic probabilistic features and we have to use probabilistic models with even higher degree of nonclassicality than quantum probability. It is surprising that already a cognitive analog of the triple slit experiment in QM can be used to check this problem.