Publicaties
Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Inspired by foundational studies in classical and quantum physics, and by information retrieval studies in quantum information theory, we prove that the notions of 'energy' and 'entropy' can be consistently introduced in human language and, more generally, in human culture. More explicitly, if energy is attributed to words according to their frequency of appearance in a text, then the ensuing energy levels are distributed non-classically, ...
Entangled cognition in immersive learning experience Vrije Universiteit Brussel
When Bertlmann Wears No Socks. Common Causes Induced by Measurements as an Explanation for Quantum Correlations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Entanglement as a Method to Reduce Uncertainty Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In physics, entanglement ‘reduces’ the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) qentropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lower than the entropy of the component sub-entities. We show here that this ‘genuinely non-classical reduction of entropy as a result of composition’ also holds whenever two concepts combine in human cognition and, more generally, it is valid in human culture. On ...
Catching the Big Fish Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Context • The 4E approach proposes an alternative framework to understanding cognition and learning. However, its application to the study of creativity from new educational approaches such as STEAM is incipient. > Problem • How can the 4E approach that fosters creativity be implemented in STEAM education, through participation in technology-mediated learning ecosystems? > Method • Through face-to-face ethnographic participant ...
Authors' Response Becoming Makers Through Continuous Practice Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We address the following three questions that summarize the concerns of commentators: (a) Is the metaphor of creativity as catching the big fish useful? (b) What is the relationship between radical constructivism and the 4E approach? (c) What do we understand by teaching from the 4E approach?
Analysing the Conjunction Fallacy as a Fact Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Since the seminal paper by Tversky and Kahneman, the ‘conjunction fallacy’ has been the subject of multiple debates and become a fundamental challenge for cognitive theories in decision-making. In this chapter, we take a rather uncommon perspective on this phenomenon. Instead of trying to explain the nature or causes of the conjunction fallacy (intensional definition), we analyse its range of factual possibilities (extensional definition). We ...
Entanglement in Cognition violating Bell Inequalities Beyond Cirel'son's Bound Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We present the results of two tests where a sample of human participants were asked to make judgements about the conceptual combinations The Animal Acts and The Animal eats the Food. Both tests significantly violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt version of Bell inequalities (‘CHSH inequality’), thus exhibiting manifestly non-classical behaviour due to the meaning connection between the individual concepts that are combined. We then apply a ...
A Markovian framework to study the evolution of complexity and resilience in chemical organizations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
So far, organizations have been applied as a model for the ...