DECISION MAKING IN SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS BY ABINASH.D
Heads and tails (at the same time) By Abinash.D
Famous Thought Experiment, Schrödinger's Cat Is Both Alive and Dead
According to a study published in 1992 in the journal Cognitive Psychology. Presumably, winners bet a second time because they stand to
gain money no matter what, while losers bet in attempt to recover their losses,
and then some. However, if players aren't allowed to know the result of the
first coin flip, they rarely make the second gamble.
When known, the first
flip does not sway the choice that follows, but when unknown, it makes all the
difference. This paradox does not fit within the framework of classical
reinforcement learning, which predicts that the objective choice should always
be the same. In contrast, quantum mechanics takes uncertainty into account and
actually predicts this odd outcome.
"One could say
that the 'quantum-based' model of decision-making refers essentially to the use
of quantum probability in the area of cognition," Emmanuel Haven and
Andrei Khrennikov, co-authors of the textbook "Quantum Social
Science" (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Just as a particular electron might be here or there at a given
moment, quantum mechanics assumes that the first coin toss resulted in both a
win and a loss, simultaneously. (In other words, in the famous thought
experiment, Schrödinger's cat is both alive and dead.) While caught in this ambiguous
state, known as "superposition," an individual's final choice is
unknown and unpredictable. Quantum mechanics also acknowledges that people's
beliefs about the outcome of a given decision — whether it will be good or bad
— often reflect what their final choice ends up being. In this way, people's
beliefs interact, or become "entangled,"
with their eventual action.
Subatomic particles
can likewise become entangled and influence each other's behavior even when
separated by great distances. For instance, measuring the behavior of a
particle located in Japan would alter the behavior of its entangled partner in the
United States. In psychology, a similar analogy can be drawn between beliefs
and behaviors. "It is precisely this interaction," or state of
entanglement, "which influences the measurement outcome," Haven and
Khrennikov said. The measurement outcome, in this case, refers to the final
choice an individual makes. "This can be precisely formulated with the aid
of quantum probability."
Scientists can mathematically model this entangled state of
superposition — in which two particles affect each other even if they’re
separated by a large distance — as demonstrated in a 2007 report published by
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. And remarkably, the final formula accurately
predicts the paradoxical outcome of the coin toss paradigm. "The lapse in
logic can be better explained by using the quantum-based approach"
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