The Violation of Bell Inequalities in the Macroworld
By Diederik Aerts, Sven Aerts, J. Broekaert, Liane Gabora. 2000
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We show that Bell inequalities can be violated in the macroscopic world. The macroworld violation is illustrated using an example involving connected vessels of water. We show that whether the violation of inequalities occurs in the microworld or the macroworld, it is the identification of nonidentical events that plays a crucial role. Specifically, we prove that if nonidentical events are consistently differentiated, Bell-type Pitowsky inequalities are no longer violated, even for Bohm's example of two entangled spin 1/2 quantum particles. We show how Bell inequalities can be violated in cognition, specifically in the relationship between abstract concepts and specific instances of these concepts. This supports the hypothesis that genuine quantum structure exists in the mind. We introduce a model where the amount of nonlocality and the degree of quantum uncertainty are parameterized, and demonstrate that increasing nonlocality increases the degree of violation, while increasing quantum uncertainty decreases the degree of violation.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, History and Philosophy of Science
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- Creative Thought as a non Darwinian Evolutionary Process (2005, background): “Thus this type of contextuality is not restricted to the microworld, but is present in the macroworld, and part of ordinary human experience (Aerts, 1982; Aerts, Aerts, Broekaert, & Gabora, 2000; Aerts, Broekaert & Gabora, in press; Aerts, Durt, Grib, Van Bogert & Zapatrin, 1992; Aerts & Van Boger”
- Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision (2012, background): “Finally, it is important to note that since the CHSH and CH inequalities are both based on conventional probability theory, it is non-controversial to apply them outside of quantum physics (Aerts et al., 2000; Khrennikov, 2010).”