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Options for Testing Temporal Bell Inequalities for Mental Systems

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Quantum Interaction (QI 2011)

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It is shown how the concept of Bell inequalities may be used to decide whether “superposition” states exist in mental systems. For this purpose a generalized form of temporal Bell inequalities, originally developed for two-state systems, is derived for systems with any finite number of states. We propose options for testing violations of these inequalities in psychological experiments and discuss the important role of “non-invasive” measurements. Classical models can violate temporal Bell inequalitites, but observations are invasive.

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  1. Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, Germany

    Harald Atmanspacher & Thomas Filk

  2. Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

    Harald Atmanspacher

  3. Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Filk

  4. Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Filk

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  1. School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, St. Andrew Street, AB25 1HG, Aberdeen, U.K.

    Dawei Song

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Massimo Melucci

  3. Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, LU1 3JU, Luton, UK

    Ingo Frommholz

  4. School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, St. Andrew Street, AB25 1HG, Aberdeen, UK

    Peng Zhang  & Lei Wang  & 

  5. School of Computing, University of Glasgow, 18 Lilybank Gardens, G 128 QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Sachi Arafat

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Atmanspacher, H., Filk, T. (2011). Options for Testing Temporal Bell Inequalities for Mental Systems. In: Song, D., Melucci, M., Frommholz, I., Zhang, P., Wang, L., Arafat, S. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24971-6_13

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