A Quantum Logic of Down Below

Bruza, P. D.; Widdows, D.; Woods, John

A Quantum Logic of Down Below

Authors

Bruza, P. D.

Widdows, D.

Woods, John

Description

This chapter is offered as a contribution to the logic of down below. We attempt to demonstrate that the nature of human agency necessitates that there actually be such a logic. The ensuing sections develop the suggestion that cognition down below has a structure strikingly similar to the physical structure of quantum states. In its general form, this is not an idea that originates with the present authors. It is known that there exist mathematical models from the cognitive science of cognition down below that have certain formal similarities to quantum mechanics. We want to take this idea seriously. We will propose that the subspaces of von Neumann-Birkhoff lattices are too crisp for modelling requisite cognitive aspects in relation to subsymbolic logic. Instead, we adopt an approach which relies on projections into nonorthogonal density states. The projection operator is motivated from cues which probe human memory.
Pre-final draft of a chapter to appear in K. Engesser, D. Gabbay and D. Lehmann (eds) Handbook of Quantum Logic, Qunatum Structure and Quantum Computation. Vol 2. Comments welcome