Human Brains May Deal with Moment-to-Moment Emotional Awareness via Quantum Cognition

The human brain as a probability statement generator may rely on this model to avoid the fear of the reality that it may not exist in the next moment.  Moment-to-moment emotional awareness requires the "courage" to continue to take that risk while permitting our feelings to become conscious without "freaking out."  A theory of Quantum Cognition may provide a reasonable explanation of how we do that:

Quantum cognition: a new theoretical approach to psychology

Peter D. Bruza

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 Zheng Wang

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 Jerome R. Busemeyer

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.05.001

 

 

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• Highlights
• •Quantum cognition models are founded on principles drawn from quantum physics.
• •Quantum models parsimoniously address puzzling cognitive phenomena.
• •Standard probabilistic models and quantum models are contrasted and compared.

What type of probability theory best describes the way humans make judgments under uncertainty and decisions under conflict? Although rational models of cognition have become prominent and have achieved much success, they adhere to the laws of classical probability theory despite the fact that human reasoning does not always conform to these laws. For this reason we have seen the recent emergence of models based on an alternative probabilistic framework drawn from quantum theory. These quantum models show promise in addressing cognitive phenomena that have proven recalcitrant to modeling by means of classical probability theory. This review compares and contrasts probabilistic models based on Bayesian or classical versus quantum principles, and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Keywords:

quantum probability, Bayesian probability, complementarity, incompatibility, superposition, human judgment