The cognitive triple-slit experiment
Luca Sassoli de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

TL;DR
This paper explores a cognitive analogy to the quantum triple-slit experiment, demonstrating interference effects in human decision-making and highlighting differences in how quantum entities and concepts manifest.
Contribution
It introduces a cognitive triple-slit experiment model, revealing interference patterns in human decisions and analyzing deviations from standard quantum interference.
Findings
Interference fringes observed in human decision data
Presence of strong third-order interference contributions
Differences in manifestation of conceptuality between quantum entities and human concepts
Abstract
Quantum cognition has made it possible to model human cognitive processes very effectively, revealing numerous parallels between the properties of conceptual entities tested by the human mind and those of microscopic entities tested by measurement apparatuses. The success of quantum cognition has also made it possible to formulate an interpretation of quantum mechanics, called the conceptuality interpretation, which ascribes to quantum entities a conceptual nature similar to that of human concepts. The present work fits into these lines of research by analyzing a cognitive version of single, double, and triple-slit experiments. The data clearly show the formation of the typical interference fringes between the slits as well as the embryos of secondary fringes. Our analysis also shows that while quantum entities and human concepts may share a same conceptual nature, the way they manifest…
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