<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism"^^ . "We outline the rationale and preliminary results of using the State Context\nProperty (SCOP) formalism, originally developed as\na generalization of quantum mechanics, to describe the contextual manner in\nwhich concepts are evoked, used, and combined to\ngenerate meaning. The quantum formalism was developed to cope with problems\narising in the description of (1) the measurement\nprocess, and (2) the generation of new states with new properties when\nparticles become entangled. Similar problems arising\nwith concepts motivated the formal treatment introduced here. Concepts are\nviewed not as fixed representations, but entities\nexisting in states of potentiality that require interaction with a\ncontext---a stimulus or another concept---to `collapse' to\nobservable form as an exemplar, prototype, or other (possibly imaginary)\ninstance. The stimulus situation plays the role of\nthe measurement in physics, acting as context that induces a change of the\ncognitive state from\nsuperposition state to collapsed state. The collapsed state is\nmore likely to consist of a conjunction of\nconcepts for associative than analytic thought because more stimulus or\nconcept properties take part in the\ncollapse. We provide two contextual measures of conceptual distance---one\nusing collapse probabilities and the other weighted\nproperties---and show how they can be applied to conjunctions using the pet\nfish problem.\n"^^ . "2002-01" . . "14" . "4" . . "Taylor and Francis"^^ . . . "Joural of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Diederik"^^ . "Aerts"^^ . "Diederik Aerts"^^ . . "Liane"^^ . "Gabora"^^ . "Liane Gabora"^^ . . "Eric"^^ . "Dietrich"^^ . "Eric Dietrich"^^ . . . . . . "Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "jetai.pdf"^^ . . . "Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism (Image (PNG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.png"^^ . . . "Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #2725 \n\nContextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . . . "Artificial Intelligence" . .