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What Path Monitor: A Brief Note on Quantum Cognition and Quantum Interference, the Role of the Knowledge Factor
School of Advanced International Studies on Applied Theoretical and Non-Linear Methodologies of Physics, Bari, Italy
Department of Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 1 School of Advanced International Studies on Applied Theoretical and Non-Linear Methodologies of Physics, Bari, Italy
- 2 Department of Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Abstract
We discuss a celebrated experiment of quantum mechanics to evidence that quantum mechanics delineates a novel feature of our reality in which cognition enters as primary element, strongly linked ab initio to the dynamics of matter.
KeywordsQuantum CognitionHuman CognitionQuantum MechanicsQuantum Interference
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