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HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Consciousness Research
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1406459
This article is part of the Research Topic Insights in Consciousness Research- Volume II View all 12 articles

Quantum-like Qualia hypothesis: from Quantum Cognition to Quantum Perception

Provisionally accepted
Naotsugu Tsuchiya Naotsugu Tsuchiya 1*Peter Bruza Peter Bruza 2Makiko Yamada Makiko Yamada 3Hayato Saigo Hayato Saigo 4Emmanuel Pothos Emmanuel Pothos 5
  • 1 School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 2 School of Information Systems, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  • 3 National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (Japan), Chiba, Japan
  • 4 Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Nagahama, Japan
  • 5 Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City University of London, London, United Kingdom

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    The recent explosion in theories of consciousness, which aim to link subjectivity and physical substrates, require a better characterization of mathematical structure of quality of consciousness, or qualia.In traditional and intuitive models of qualia, a particular quale is assumed to be a point in a high dimensional space.Such models assume that qualia exist independent of measurements, but they are incompatible with the findings that qualia are generally affected by measurements.To account for how the measurement can affect qualia, a Quantum-like Qualia (QQ) hypothesis proposes a mathematical structure employed in quantum theory.We will outline how QQ can be tested with various experimental paradigms, building on the successful quantum cognition framework.

    Keywords: qualia, Quantum Cognition, Consciousness, Attention, Similarity, Bell inequality, bistable perception

    Received: 25 Mar 2024; Accepted: 28 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tsuchiya, Bruza, Yamada, Saigo and Pothos. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Naotsugu Tsuchiya, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, 3800, VIC, Australia

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