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A key idea in the field of “quantum interaction” or “quantum cognition” is that certain principles and mathematical tools of quantum theory (such as quantum probability, entanglement, non-commutativity, non-Boolean logic and complementarity) provide a good way of modeling many significant cognitive phenomena (such as decision processes, ambiguous perception, meaning in natural languages, probability judgments, order effects and memory.
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Pylkkänen, P. (2016). Can Bohmian Quantum Information Help us to Understand Consciousness?. In: Atmanspacher, H., Filk, T., Pothos, E. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9535. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28675-4_6
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