{"id":4878,"date":"2020-01-28T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:44:58","slug":"quantum-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/01\/28\/quantum-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"quantum cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Humans are&#8230;complex and sometimes irrational. While neural nets try to approximate the structure\/function of the human brain, we find that there is something missing from that approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quantum mechanics is&#8230;complex and sometimes irrational. It turned Newtonian science on its head in the early 20th century, and continues to provide seemingly crazy results in the world of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I suppose it makes sense to apply quantum to humans, and one example is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"quantum cognition (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/quantum-like-model-of-decision-making-proposed.html\" target=\"_blank\">quantum cognition<\/a>. A mix of quantum mechanics and psychology, it tries to use the concepts of quantum (e.g. probability) applied to human decisions. While we&#8217;re nowhere close to having a functional quantum computer, let along a quantum human simulation, it is an interesting model to use for trying to better understand human behavior &#8211; which is often at the heart of social science problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are&#8230;complex and sometimes irrational. While neural nets try to approximate the structure\/function of the human brain, we find that there is something missing from that approach. Quantum mechanics is&#8230;complex and sometimes irrational. It turned Newtonian science on its head in the early 20th century, and continues to provide seemingly crazy results in the world&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}