Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Argu\"elles, Lester Beltran, Sandro, Sozzo

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel thermodynamic framework for human cognition and culture, applying quantum physics concepts like energy, entropy, and entanglement to explain language and cultural phenomena.
Contribution
It develops a non-classical thermodynamic theory for human cognition and culture, integrating quantum concepts into language and cultural analysis.
Findings
Words follow Bose-Einstein statistics due to quantum indistinguishability.
Quantum entanglement reduces the entropy of texts, indicating increased concreteness.
Energy quantization appears in cognition and cultural interactions.
Abstract
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, namely, they obey Bose-Einstein, rather than Maxwell-Boltzmann, statistics, as a consequence of the genuinely 'quantum indistinguishability' of the words that appear in the text. Secondly, the 'quantum entanglement' due to the way meaning is carried by a text reduces the (von Neumann) entropy of the words that appear in the text, a behaviour which cannot be explained within classical (thermodynamic or information) entropy. We claim here that this…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Text Analysis Techniques · Fractal and DNA sequence analysis · Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
