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On Quantum Models of the Human Mind
Author(s) -
Wang Hongbin,
Sun Yanlong
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12064
Subject(s) - cognition , cognitive science , quantum , computer science , representation (politics) , cognitive model , field (mathematics) , psychology , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , political science , politics , pure mathematics , law
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.