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On the Irreversible Journey of Matter, Life and Human Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi
Following in the footsteps of Schrödinger, we propose a unified view of matter, life and human culture, with particular emphasis on the role played by the second law of thermodynamics and the primordial matter–antimatter separation. In doing so, we highlight the fragility of ‘construction’ (order) and the robustness of ‘destruction’ (chaos), when they locally and contextually face each other within a same reality layer, and the power of ...

Violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality and marginal laws in a single-entity Bell-test experiment Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi
We describe a simple experimental setting where joint measurements performed on a single (classical or quantum) entity can violate both the Bell-CHSH inequality and the marginal laws (also called no-signaling conditions). Once emitted by a source, the entity propagates within the space of Alice’s and Bob’s detection screens, with the measurements’ outcomes corresponding to the entity being absorbed or not absorbed in a given time interval. The ...

A Non‐Spatial Reality Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi
It is generally assumed, and usually taken for granted, that reality is fully contained in space. However, when taking a closer look at the strange behavior of the entities of the micro-world, we are forced to abandon such a prejudice and recognize that space is just a temporary crystallization of a small theatre for reality, where the material entities can take a place and meet with each other. More precisely, phenomena like quantum ...

Modeling Human Decision-Making: An Overview of the Brussels Quantum Approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
We present the fundamentals of the quantum theoretical approach we have developed in the last decade to model cognitive phenomena that resisted modeling by means of classical logical and probabilistic structures, like Boolean, Kolmogorovian and, more generally, set theoretical structures. We firstly sketch the operational-realistic foundations of conceptual entities, i.e. concepts, conceptual combinations, propositions, decision-making entities, ...

The Missing Reading of the Parable: Comment on ‘The Twelfth Camel, or the Economics of Justice’, by F Ost [(2011) 2(2) J Int Disp Settlement 333–51] Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi
In a very educational article, François Ost took us through 12 different readings of the ancient Bedouin parable of the 12 camels. In this note, we observe that the judge’s stratagem of introducing the 12th camel, which is ultimately returned to him, not only allows for solving the dispute, in pragmatic terms, but also yields the only repartition that respects to the letter the will expressed in the testament. We also show that when the ...

Violation of CHSH inequality and marginal laws in mixed sequential measurements with order effects Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi

We model a typical Bell-test experimental situation by considering that Alice and Bob perform incompatible measurements in a sequential way, with mixed orders of execution. After emphasizing that order effects will generally produce a violation of the marginal laws, we derive an upper limit for the observed correlations. More precisely, when Alice’s and Bob’s measurements are compatible, the marginal laws are obeyed and Tsirelson’s bound ...

Using abstract elastic membranes to learn about quantum measurements Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi

The objectives of the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies were summarized by his creator as: interdisciplinarity, construction of world views and broad dissemination of scientific knowledge. In compliance with the third of these objectives, we provide a rigorous but accessible popular science version of a research article published by Aerts and Sassoli de Bianchi (Ann Phys 351:975–1025, 2014), where an extended version of the ...

Preface of the Special Issue International Symposium “Worlds of Entanglement.” Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli De Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
This special issue is one of the outcomes of the International Symposium “Worlds of Entanglement,” held at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), on September 29–30, 2017. The event gathered more than 50 scholars from different disciplines, ranging from pure mathematics to visual arts, and from multiple parts of the world, including Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland and the United States, among others, to ...