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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
On quantum models of the human mind
1School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed rapidly increasing interests in developing quantum theoretical models of human cognition. Quantum mechanisms have been taken seriously to describe how the mind reasons and decides. Papers in this special issue report the newest results in the field. Here we discuss why the two levels of commitment, treating the human brain as a quantum computer and merely adopting abstract quantum probability principles to model human cognition, should be integrated. We speculate that quantum cognition models gain greater modeling power due to a richer representation scheme.
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