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Quantum Bose-Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language

arXiv 2103.15125 ↗First posted 28 Mar 2021q-bio.NC cs.CL quant-phcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a 'number concept' plus a 'substantive concept', such as 'eleven animals,' the identity and indistinguishability present on the level of the concepts, i.e., all eleven animals are identical and indistinguishable, gives rise to a statistical structure of the Bose-Einstein type similar to how Bose-Einstein statistics is present for identical and indistinguishable quantum particles. We proceed by identifying evidence for this hypothesis by extracting the statistical data from the World-Wide-Web utilizing the Google Search tool. By using the Kullback-Leibler divergence method, we then compare the obtained distribution with the Maxwell-Boltzmann as well as with the Bose-Einstein distributions and show that the Bose-Einstein's provides a better fit as compared to the Maxwell-Boltzmanns.

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  1. 2019Quantum Structure in Cognition: Human Language as a Boson Gas of Entangled Wordscited by 9
  2. 2017Towards a Quantum World Wide Webcited by 6
  3. 2018The Heart of an Image: Quantum Superposition and Entanglement in Visual Perceptioncited by 6
  4. 2014The Quantum Nature of Identity in Human Thought: Bose-Einstein Statistics for Conceptual Indistinguishabilitycited by 5
  5. 2018Modeling Meaning Associated with Documental Entities: Introducing the Brussels Quantum Approachcited by 1

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