Quantum Structure in Cognition: Human Language as a Boson Gas of Entangled Words
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Abstract (arXiv)
We model a piece of text of human language telling a story by means of the quantum structure describing a Bose gas in a state close to a Bose-Einstein condensate near absolute zero temperature. For this we introduce energy levels for the words (concepts) used in the story and we also introduce the new notion of 'cogniton' as the quantum of human thought. Words (concepts) are then cognitons in different energy states as it is the case for photons in different energy states, or states of different radiative frequency, when the considered boson gas is that of the quanta of the electromagnetic field. We show that Bose-Einstein statistics delivers a very good model for these pieces of texts telling stories, both for short stories and for long stories of the size of novels. We analyze an unexpected connection with Zipf's law in human language, the Zipf ranking relating to the energy levels of the words, and the Bose-Einstein graph coinciding with the Zipf graph. We investigate the issue of 'identity and indistinguishability' from this new perspective and conjecture that the way one can easily understand how two of 'the same concepts' are 'absolutely identical and indistinguishable' in human language is also the way in which quantum particles are absolutely identical and indistinguishable in physical reality, providing in this way new evidence for our conceptuality interpretation of quantum theory.
Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 15 Sep 2019.
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- 2025Identifying Quantum Structure in AI Language: Evidence for Evolutionary Convergence of Human and Artificial Cognitioncited by 3
- 2022Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culturecited by 2
- 2024Identifying Quantum Mechanical Statistics in Italian Corporacited by 1
- 2024Are Colors Quanta of Light for Human Vision? A Quantum Cognition Study of Visual Perceptioncited by 0
- 2026Reply to comments arXiv:2512.07881 and arXiv:2601.06104 on quantum structure in human and AI-generated languagecited by 0
- 2026Reply to comments arXiv:2512.07881 and arXiv:2601.06104 on quantum structure in human and AI-generated language22 Sep 2026
- 2025Identifying Quantum Structure in AI Language: Evidence for Evolutionary Convergence of Human and Artificial Cognition21 Nov 2025
- 2024Identifying Quantum Mechanical Statistics in Italian Corpora10 Dec 2024
- 2024Are Colors Quanta of Light for Human Vision? A Quantum Cognition Study of Visual Perception14 Mar 2024
- 2022Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture24 Dec 2022
- 2022Human Perception as a Phenomenon of Quantization7 Aug 2022
- 2022A Planck Radiation and Quantization Scheme for Human Cognition and Language10 Jan 2022
- 2021Are Words the Quanta of Human Language? Extending the Domain of Quantum Cognition10 Oct 2021
- 2021Quantum Bose-Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language28 Mar 2021