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Quantum-like cognition and decision making in the light of quantum measurement theory

arXiv 2503.05859 ↗First posted 7 Mar 2025cs.AI physics.bio-ph quant-phcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

We characterize the class of quantum measurements that matches the applications of quantum theory to cognition (and decision making) - quantum-like modeling. Projective measurements describe the canonical measurements of the basic observables of quantum physics. However, the combinations of the basic cognitive effects, such as the question order and response replicability effects, cannot be described by projective measurements. We motivate the use of the special class of quantum measurements, namely it sharp repeatable non-projective measurements - cal SRbarP. This class is practically unused in quantum physics. Thus, physics and cognition explore different parts of quantum measurement theory. Quantum-like modeling isn't automatic borrowing of the quantum formalism. Exploring the class cal SRbarP highlights the role of it noncommutativity of the state update maps generated by measurement back action. Thus, ``non-classicality'' in quantum physics as well as quantum-like modeling for cognition is based on two different types of noncommutativity, of operators (observables) and instruments (state update maps): it observable-noncommutativity vs. it state update-noncommutativity. We speculate that distinguishing quantum-like properties of the cognitive effects are the expressions of the latter, or possibly both.

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  1. 2014Quantum Models for Psychological Measurements: An Unsolved Problemcited by 5
  2. 2022Nondistributivity of human logic and violation of response replicability effect in cognitive psychologycited by 4
  3. 2024Coupling quantum-like cognition with the neuronal networks within generalized probability theorycited by 1

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