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Luo MX. Quantumness speeds up quantum thermodynamics processes. iScience 2024; 27:109722. [PMID: 38689639 PMCID: PMC11059519 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 03/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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Quantum thermodynamic process involves manipulating and controlling quantum states to extract energy or perform computational tasks with high efficiency. There is still no efficient general method to theoretically quantify the effect of the quantumness of coherence and entanglement in work extraction. In this work, we propose a thermodynamics speed to quantify the extracting work. We show that the coherence of quantum systems can speed up work extracting with respect to some cyclic evolution beyond all incoherent states. We further show the genuine entanglement of quantum systems may speed up work extracting beyond any bi-separable states. This provides a new thermodynamic method to witness entangled systems with physical quantities.
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- Ming-Xing Luo
- School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei 230026, China
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Chen HJ. Two-color electromagnetically induced transparency generated slow light in double-mechanical-mode coupling carbon nanotube resonators. iScience 2024; 27:109328. [PMID: 38500837 PMCID: PMC10946331 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024] Open
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We theoretically propose a multiple-mode-coupling hybrid quantum system comprising two-mode-coupling nanomechanical carbon nanotube (CNT) resonators realized by a phase-dependent phonon-exchange interaction interacting with the same nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. We investigate the coherent optical responses of the NV center under the condition of resonance and detuning. In particular, two-color electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) can be achieved by controlling the system parameters and coupling regimes. Combining the spin-phonon interactions and phonon-phonon coupling with the modulation phase, the switching of one and two EIT windows has been demonstrated, which generates a light delay or advance. The slow-to-fast and fast-to-slow light transitions have been studied in different coupling regimes, and the switch between slow and fast light can be controlled periodically by tuning the modulation phase. The study can be applied to phonon-mediated optical information storage or information processing with spin qubits based on multiple-mode hybrid quantum systems.
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- Hua-Jun Chen
- School of Mechanics and Photoelectric Physics, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui 232001, China
- Center for Fundamental Physics, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui 232001, China
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Genc F, Kandemirli F, Senturk Dalgic S. A theoretical study on 1H-indole-2,3-dione complexes with lithium, sodium, and potassium cations. J Mol Model 2024; 30:100. [PMID: 38466474 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-024-05898-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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CONTEXT A comparative study of the change in different properties of electronic and structural of the free 1H-indole-2,3-dione molecule and its complexes has been obtained. HOMA analysis was performed to investigate the effects of lithium sodium and potassium cations on the aromaticity of lithium sodium and potassium complexes of 1H-indole-2,3-dione. METHODS Several 1H-indole-2,3-dione complexes with lithium, sodium, and potassium cations were optimized at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level. The cation and π interaction has been investigated from different aspects, including interaction energy calculations, charge transfer values, and changes in the aromaticity of the ring upon complexation. The charge transfer and natural population analysis for the complexes were performed with the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. The properties of bond critical points in complexes were studied by applying the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM). Finally, the aromaticity change of phenyl induced upon complex formation was evaluated by applying the harmonic oscillator model of aromaticity (HOMA). [Li-INa]+ and [[Li-INb]+ were optimized with the wB97XD function using a version of Grimme's D2 dispersion model, and the absorption energy was compared with the calculation made with the B3LYP functional.
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- Fatma Genc
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul YeniYuzyil University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu, Turkey
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- Department of Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Faculty of Science, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Wen H, Lin Y, Kang S, Zhang X, Zou K. Secure image encryption algorithm using chaos-based block permutation and weighted bit planes chain diffusion. iScience 2024; 27:108610. [PMID: 38205238 PMCID: PMC10777072 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2023] [Revised: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Aiming at the problem of insufficient security of image encryption technology, a secure image encryption algorithm using chaos-based block permutation and weighted bit planes chain diffusion is proposed, which is based on a variant structure of classical permutation-diffusion. During the permutation phase, the encryption operations of dividing an image into sub-block, block scrambling, block rotation and block inversion, negative-positive transformation, color component shuffling are performed sequentially with chaotic sequences of plaintext association. In the chain diffusion stage, different encryption strategies are adopted for the high and low 4-bit planes according to the weight of image information. Theoretical analyses and empirical results substantiate that the algorithm conforms to the cryptographic requirements of confusion, diffusion, and avalanche effects, while possessing excellent numerical statistical properties with a large cryptographic space. Therefore, the cryptanalysis-propelled security enhancement mechanism proposed in this paper effectively amplifies the aptitude of the algorithm to withstand cryptographic attacks.
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- Heping Wen
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan 528402, China
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
- School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan 528402, China
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan 528402, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan 528402, China
- School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan 528402, China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering (School of Cyber Security), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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Cuzminschi M, Zubarev A, Iordache SM, Isar A. Influence of the seed of measurement on the work extracted in a quantum Szilard engine. iScience 2023; 26:108563. [PMID: 38162018 PMCID: PMC10755042 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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We investigate the influence of the seed of measurement on the performance of a Szilard engine based on a two-mode Gaussian state evolving in a noisy channel. Quantum work is extracted by performing a positive operator-valued measurement (POVM) on one of the two modes, after which this mode reaches equilibrium with the environment. As the seed of measurement, we use a single-mode squeezed thermal state. We employ the Markovian Kossakowski-Lindblad master equation to determine the evolution in time of the considered open system and the quantum work is defined based on the Rényi entropy of order 2. We show that the extracted quantum work and information-work efficiency strongly depend on the characteristic parameters of the system (frequency, average thermal photons number, and squeezing), the noisy channel (temperature and squeezing of the bath), and the seed of measurement (average thermal photons number and strength of the measurement).
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- Marina Cuzminschi
- Department of Theoretical Physics, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 07125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
- Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, 077125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
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- Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion Laboratory, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, 077125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
- Extreme Light Infrastructure, National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 07125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
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- Optospintronics Department, National Institute for Research and Development for Optoelectronics—INOE 2000, 077125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 07125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
- Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, 077125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania
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Waddup OJ, Yearsley JM, Blasiak P, Pothos EM. Temporal Bell inequalities in cognition. Psychon Bull Rev 2023; 30:1946-1953. [PMID: 37069421 PMCID: PMC10716061 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-023-02275-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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There is widespread evidence that human memory is constructive, so that recollective processes may alter the information retrieved or impact on subsequent recollections. We examine a framework for narrowing down the nature of such processes, from physics. In Physics, the Temporal Bell (TB) inequality offers a general test of the sensitivity of the context of previous measurements in sequential measurement scenarios, as predicted by quantum theory. We present an empirical memory paradigm that allows a test of the TB inequality, using a novel kind of "change judgment," whereby participants are asked to decide whether there has been a change in a question across different time points of a scenario. Across two experiments, we were able to observe evidence for the violation of a TB inequality in one case, offering evidence for quantum-like processes in memory. The present results complement other recent work purporting the relevance of quantum-like representations in memory and raise questions regarding the adaptive value of such representations.
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- Oliver J Waddup
- Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Zhong C, Li G, Meng Z, Li H, He W. A self-adaptive quantum equilibrium optimizer with artificial bee colony for feature selection. Comput Biol Med 2023; 153:106520. [PMID: 36608463 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Feature selection (FS) is a popular data pre-processing technique in machine learning to extract the optimal features to maintain or increase the classification accuracy of the dataset, which is a combinatorial optimization problem, requiring a powerful optimizer to obtain the optimum subset. The equilibrium optimizer (EO) is a recent physical-based metaheuristic algorithm with good performance for various optimization problems, but it may encounter premature or the local convergence in feature selection. This work presents a self-adaptive quantum EO with artificial bee colony for feature selection, named SQEOABC. In the proposed algorithm, the quantum theory and the self-adaptive mechanism are employed into the updating rule of EO to enhance convergence, and the updating mechanism from the artificial bee colony is also incorporated into EO to achieve appropriate FS solutions. In the experiments, 25 benchmark datasets from the UCI repository are investigated to verify SQEOABC, which is compared with several state-of-the-art metaheuristic algorithms and the variants of EO. The statistical results of fitness values and accuracy demonstrate that SQEOABC has better performance than the compared algorithms and the variants of EO. Finally, a real-world FS problem from COVID-19 illustrates the effectiveness and superiority of SQEOABC.
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- Changting Zhong
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of Structural Analyses for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China; School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
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- Department of Engineering Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of Structural Analyses for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China; Ningbo Institute of Dalian University of Technology, Ningbo, 315000, China.
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- School of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China.
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- BIM for Smart Engineering Centre, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, Whales, UK.
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- Department of Engineering Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of Structural Analyses for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
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Rosner A, Basieva I, Barque-Duran A, Glöckner A, von Helversen B, Khrennikov A, Pothos EM. Ambivalence in decision making: An eye tracking study. Cogn Psychol 2022; 134:101464. [PMID: 35298978 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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An intuition of ambivalence in cognition is particularly strong for complex decisions, for which the merits and demerits of different options are roughly equal but hard to compare. We examined information search in an experimental paradigm which tasked participants with an ambivalent question, while monitoring attentional dynamics concerning the information relevant to each option in different Areas of Interest (AOIs). We developed two dynamical models for describing eye tracking curves, for each response separately. The models incorporated a drift mechanism towards the various options, as in standard drift diffusion theory. In addition, they included a mechanism for intrinsic oscillation, which competed with the drift process and undermined eventual stabilization of the dynamics. The two models varied in the range of drift processes postulated. Higher support was observed for the simpler model, which only included drifts from an uncertainty state to either of two certainty states. In addition, model parameters could be weakly related to the eventual decision, complementing our knowledge of the way eye tracking structure relates to decision (notably the gaze cascade effect).
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- Agnes Rosner
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
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- Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK; Department of Computer Science, Universitat de Lleida, Carrer de Jaume II, 67, 25001 Lleida, España.
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- Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, Bremen University, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
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- International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics and Cognitive Sciences Linnaeus University, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
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Pothos EM, Pleskac TJ. Rethinking Rationality. Top Cogn Sci 2022; 14:451-466. [PMID: 35261177 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We seek to understand rational decision making and if it exists whether finite (bounded) agents may be able to achieve its principles. This aim has been a singular objective throughout much of human science and philosophy, with early discussions identified since antiquity. More recently, there has been a thriving debate based on differing perspectives on rationality, including adaptive heuristics, Bayesian theory, quantum theory, resource rationality, and probabilistic language of thought. Are these perspectives on rationality mutually exclusive? Are they all needed? Do they undermine an aim to have rational standards in decision situations like politics, medicine, legal proceedings, and others, where there is an expectation and need for decision making as close to "optimal" as possible? This special issue brings together representative contributions from the currently predominant views on rationality, with a view to evaluate progress on these and related questions.
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Faye J, Jaksland R. What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics. Stud Hist Philos Sci 2021; 88:110-119. [PMID: 34147731 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics is often cast as positivist and sometimes explicitly claimed to be influenced by logical positivists due to some similarities in their thinking. While it is certainly the case that some logical positivists attempted to recruit Bohr, this paper argues that Bohr had interests of his own in the logical positivists. Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics focuses on observation, the use of classical concepts in quantum mechanics, and indeterminacy of quantum processes as opposed to uncertainty of measurement. His view thereby shares some common ground with the logical positivists' views on verification, the observation language, and anti-metaphysics. But Bohr also emphasized complementarity: that certain pairs of concepts - such as position and momentum - are mutually exclusive in quantum mechanics since they, according to Bohr, are only meaningful relative to different experimental arrangements. Bohr believed that complementary brought a general epistemological lesson for all of science that an objective description of nature is not separable from the observational and experimental conditions under which we explore nature. Motivated by the common ground between himself and logical positivism, Bohr tried to persuade the logical positivists and Carnap in particular to adopt and champion complementarity as well as part of their unity of science program. Though his efforts ultimately proved in vain, Bohr's attempts to influence logical positivism disprove the claim that his engagement with them was reluctant and purposefully limited.
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- Jan Faye
- Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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Boge FJ. Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach. Stud Hist Philos Sci 2021; 87:101-113. [PMID: 34111813 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite remarkable efforts, it remains notoriously difficult to equip quantum theory with a coherent ontology. Hence, Healey (2017, 12) has recently suggested that "quantum theory has no physical ontology and states no facts about physical objects or events", and Fuchs et al. (2014, 752) similarly hold that "quantum mechanics itself does not deal directly with the objective world". While intriguing, these positions either raise the question of how talk of 'physical reality' can even remain meaningful, or they must ultimately embrace a hidden variables-view, in tension with their original project. I here offer a neo-Kantian alternative. In particular, I will show how constitutive elements in the sense of Reichenbach (1920) and Friedman (1999, 2001) can be identified within quantum theory, through considerations of symmetries that allow the constitution of a 'quantum reality', without invoking any notion of a radically mind-independent reality. The resulting conception will inherit elements from pragmatist and 'QBist' approaches, but also differ from them in crucial respects. Furthermore, going beyond the Friedmanian program, I will show how non-fundamental and approximate symmetries can be relevant for identifying constitutive principles.
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- Florian J Boge
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstr. 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
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Maruyama Y. Category theory and foundations of life science: A structuralist perspective on cognition. Biosystems 2021; 203:104376. [PMID: 33587999 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Category theory has recently been applied successfully beyond mathematics and its foundations, for example, in quantum physics, quantum computing, linguistics, and natural language processing in artificial intelligence. Category theory today is arguably foundations of science as well as foundations of mathematics. Yet applications of category theory to the life sciences are still limited, and there are seemingly no clearly successful paradigmatic cases of them. Here we address foundational aspects of category theory in and across the sciences, and potential structural interconnections between category theory and the life sciences, in particular cognitive science. More specifically, we first address the two aspects of category theory as foundations of science and as foundations of mathematics in particular, and then discuss what category theory could do for foundations of life science, in particular cognitive science. We propose, amongst other things, a categorical structuralist approach to the mind-body problem as an alternative to reductionist approaches, which is arguably of both scientific and metaphysical significance at the same time. Category theory allows us to elucidate structural interconnections between the laws of cognition and the laws of reality, thus paving the way for overcoming the Cartesian dualism separating the cognitive and physical worlds. Put another way, category theory suggests that there may be higher laws governing both worlds at once; the higher structuralist theory of cognition may embody the double aspect theory of information by David Chalmers.
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- Yoshihiro Maruyama
- Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia.
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Berghofer P, Goyal P, Wiltsche HA. Husserl, the mathematization of nature, and the informational reconstruction of quantum theory. Cont Philos Rev 2020; 54:413-436. [PMID: 34924810 PMCID: PMC8642328 DOI: 10.1007/s11007-020-09523-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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As is well known, the late Husserl warned against the dangers of reifying and objectifying the mathematical models that operate at the heart of our physical theories. Although Husserl's worries were mainly directed at Galilean physics, the first aim of our paper is to show that many of his critical arguments are no less relevant today. By addressing the formalism and current interpretations of quantum theory, we illustrate how topics surrounding the mathematization of nature come to the fore naturally. Our second aim is to consider the program of reconstructing quantum theory, a program that currently enjoys popularity in the field of quantum foundations. We will conclude by arguing that, seen from this vantage point, certain insights delivered by phenomenology and quantum theory regarding perspectivity are remarkably concordant. Our overall hope with this paper is to show that there is much room for mutual learning between phenomenology and modern physics.
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- Department of Physics, University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY USA
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- Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Unit for Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Psychologists generally reject the reductionist, physicalist, "nothing but" stance of the natural sciences. At the same time they consider their discipline a science and wonder why it does not enjoy the status (and funding) of the natural sciences. Ferguson American Psychologist, 70, 527-542 (2015), Lilienfeld American Psychologist, 67, 111-129 (2012), and Schwartz et al. American Psychologist, 71, 52-70 (2016) are among those who adopt a soft naturalism of nonreductive physicalism which declares, or implies, that when it comes to humans, there is more than what the natural sciences can unravel. They envision psychology as scientific in the epistemological sense of generating reproducible results, but reject the reductive ontology of science which currently points to the undeterminable chance of quantum theory as the closest physics has come to the beginnings and what might loosely be called the foundation of the universe (e.g., Bridgman Harper's, 158, 443-451 1929; Eddington 1948). The case made here is that any science, including a psychological one, must be based on a naturalist ontology. This implies restricting the term science to disciplines which not only meet epistemological criteria like reproducibility, but which also adopt-on the ontological level-the parsimonious assumption that at present it makes sense to think that "there is nothing but time and chance" (e.g., Cox and Forshaw 2011; Crease and Goldhaber 2014; Rorty 1989). From this perspective, psychology emerges as two distinct disciplines, one a natural science, the other a human science in the broad sense of science as scientia.
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Costello F, Watts P, Fisher C. Surprising rationality in probability judgment: Assessing two competing models. Cognition 2018; 170:280-97. [PMID: 29096329 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2016] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We describe 4 experiments testing contrasting predictions of two recent models of probability judgment: the quantum probability model (Busemeyer, Pothos, Franco, & Trueblood, 2011) and the probability theory plus noise model (Costello & Watts, 2014, 2016a). Both models assume that people estimate probability using formal processes that follow or subsume standard probability theory. One set of predictions concerned agreement between people's probability estimates and standard probability theory identities. The quantum probability model predicts people's estimates should agree with one set of identities, while the probability theory plus noise model predicts a specific pattern of violation of those identities. Experimental results show the specific pattern of violation predicted by the probability theory plus noise model. Another set of predictions concerned the conjunction fallacy, which occurs when people judge the probability of a conjunction P(A∧B) to be greater than one or other constituent probabilities P(A) or P(B), contrary to the requirements of probability theory. In cases where A causes B, the quantum probability model predicts that the conjunction fallacy should only occur for constituent B and not for constituent A: the noise model predicts that the fallacy should occur for both A and B. Experimental results show that the fallacy occurs equally for both, contrary to the quantum probability prediction. These results suggest that people's probability estimates do not follow quantum probability theory. These results support the idea that people estimate probabilities using mechanisms that follow standard probability theory but are subject to random noise.
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We put forward a new view of relativity theory that makes the existence of a flow of time compatible with the four-dimensional block universe. To this end, we apply the creation-discovery view elaborated for quantum mechanics to relativity theory and in such a way that time and space become creations instead of discoveries and an underlying non temporal and non spatial reality comes into existence. We study the nature of this underlying non temporal and non spatial reality and reinterpret many aspects of the theory within this new view. We show that data of relativistic measurements are sufficient to derive the three-dimensionality of physical space. The nature of light and massive entities is reconsidered, and an analogy with human cognition is worked out.
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- Diederik Aerts
- Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels Free University, Krijgskundestraat 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium
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Yearsley JM, Barque-Duran A, Scerrati E, Hampton JA, Pothos EM. The triangle inequality constraint in similarity judgments. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2017; 130:26-32. [PMID: 28363422 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Revised: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Since Tversky's (1977) seminal investigation, the triangle inequality, along with symmetry and minimality, have had a central role in investigations of the fundamental constraints on human similarity judgments. The meaning of minimality and symmetry in similarity judgments has been straightforward, but this is not the case for the triangle inequality. Expressed in terms of dissimilarities, and assuming a simple, linear function between dissimilarities and distances, the triangle inequality constraint implies that human behaviour should be consistent with Dissimilarity (A,B) + Dissimilarity (B,C) ≥ Dissimilarity (A,C), where A, B, and C are any three stimuli. We show how we can translate this constraint into one for similarities, using Shepard's (1987) generalization law, and so derive the multiplicative triangle inequality for similarities, Sim(A,C)≥Sim(A,B)⋅Sim(B,C) where 0≤Sim(x,y)≤1. Can humans violate the multiplicative triangle inequality? An empirical demonstration shows that they can.
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- James M Yearsley
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, USA.
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- Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, Italy
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Walach H, Loef M. Using a matrix-analytical approach to synthesizing evidence solved incompatibility problem in the hierarchy of evidence. J Clin Epidemiol 2015; 68:1251-60. [PMID: 26148834 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.03.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 01/07/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The hierarchy of evidence presupposes linearity and additivity of effects, as well as commutativity of knowledge structures. It thereby implicitly assumes a classical theoretical model. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING This is an argumentative article that uses theoretical analysis based on pertinent literature and known facts to examine the standard view of methodology. RESULTS We show that the assumptions of the hierarchical model are wrong. The knowledge structures gained by various types of studies are not sequentially indifferent, that is, do not commute. External validity and internal validity are at least partially incompatible concepts. Therefore, one needs a different theoretical structure, typical of quantum-type theories, to model this situation. The consequence of this situation is that the implicit assumptions of the hierarchical model are wrong, if generalized to the concept of evidence in total. CONCLUSION The problem can be solved by using a matrix-analytical approach to synthesizing evidence. Here, research methods that produce different types of evidence that complement each other are synthesized to yield the full knowledge. We show by an example how this might work. We conclude that the hierarchical model should be complemented by a broader reasoning in methodology.
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- Harald Walach
- Institute of Transcultural Health Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
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- Institute of Transcultural Health Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
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Venkatasubramanian G. Understanding schizophrenia as a disorder of consciousness: biological correlates and translational implications from quantum theory perspectives. Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci 2015; 13:36-47. [PMID: 25912536 PMCID: PMC4423156 DOI: 10.9758/cpn.2015.13.1.36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 12/07/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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From neurophenomenological perspectives, schizophrenia has been conceptualized as "a disorder with heterogeneous manifestations that can be integrally understood to involve fundamental perturbations in consciousness". While these theoretical constructs based on consciousness facilitate understanding the 'gestalt' of schizophrenia, systematic research to unravel translational implications of these models is warranted. To address this, one needs to begin with exploration of plausible biological underpinnings of "perturbed consciousness" in schizophrenia. In this context, an attractive proposition to understand the biology of consciousness is "the orchestrated object reduction (Orch-OR) theory" which invokes quantum processes in the microtubules of neurons. The Orch-OR model is particularly important for understanding schizophrenia especially due to the shared 'scaffold' of microtubules. The initial sections of this review focus on the compelling evidence to support the view that "schizophrenia is a disorder of consciousness" through critical summary of the studies that have demonstrated self-abnormalities, aberrant time perception as well as dysfunctional intentional binding in this disorder. Subsequently, these findings are linked with 'Orch-OR theory' through the research evidence for aberrant neural oscillations as well as microtubule abnormalities observed in schizophrenia. Further sections emphasize the applicability and translational implications of Orch-OR theory in the context of schizophrenia and elucidate the relevance of quantum biology to understand the origins of this puzzling disorder as "fundamental disturbances in consciousness".
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- Ganesan Venkatasubramanian
- The Schizophrenia Clinic, Department of Psychiatry and Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Neurobiology Research Centre, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore,
India
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Quantum cognition is an emerging field that uses mathematical principles of quantum theory to help formalize and understand cognitive systems and processes. The topic on the potential of using quantum theory to build models of cognition (Volume 5, issue 4) introduces and synthesizes its new development through an introduction and six core articles. The current issue presents 14 commentaries on the core articles. Five key issues surface, some of which are interestingly controversial and debatable as expected for a new emerging field.
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Quantum indeterminism is frequently invoked as a solution to the problem of how a disembodied soul might interact with the brain (as Descartes proposed), and is sometimes invoked in theories of libertarian free will even when they do not involve dualistic assumptions. Taking as example the Eccles-Beck model of interaction between self (or soul) and brain at the level of synaptic exocytosis, I here evaluate the plausibility of these approaches. I conclude that Heisenbergian uncertainty is too small to affect synaptic function, and that amplification by chaos or by other means does not provide a solution to this problem. Furthermore, even if Heisenbergian effects did modify brain functioning, the changes would be swamped by those due to thermal noise. Cells and neural circuits have powerful noise-resistance mechanisms, that are adequate protection against thermal noise and must therefore be more than sufficient to buffer against Heisenbergian effects. Other forms of quantum indeterminism must be considered, because these can be much greater than Heisenbergian uncertainty, but these have not so far been shown to play a role in the brain.
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- Peter G H Clarke
- University of Lausanne, Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, Rue du Bugnon 9, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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