A Planck Radiation and Quantization Scheme for Human Cognition and Language

Recently, we have shown that quantum statistics, and more specifically the Bose-Einstein statistics, is also prominently and convincingly present in human cognition, and more specifically in the structure of human language (Aerts & Beltran, 2020, 2022). The presence of the Bose-Einstein statistics in quantum mechanics is associated with the'identity' and'indistinguishability' of quantum particles, and is probably one of the most still poorly understood aspects of quantum reality (French & Redhead, 1988; Saunders, 2003; Muller & Seevinck, 2009; Krause, 2010; Dieks & Lubberdink, 2020). Although there are connections to entanglement, and in linear quantum optics there is now effective experimental use of the'indistinguishability' of photons to fabricate qubits, and thus'indistinguishability' is considered a'resource' for quantum computing, it remains one of the most mysterious quantum properties, also structurally different from entanglement (Franco & Compagno, 2018). The original interest of one of us in identifying in human cognition and language an equivalent of this situation of'indistinguishability' in quantum mechanics, leading to the Bose-Einstein statistics, was motivated by working on a specific interpretation of quantum mechanics, called the'conceptuality interpretation' (Aerts, 2009b). Thus, this original motivation was aimed more at increasing the understanding and explanation of what'identical' and'indistinguishable' quantum particles really are, rather than intended to introduce an additional rationale for research in quantum cognition. With a focus still primarily on this original motivation, work continued on the identification of a Bose-Einstein-like statistics by one of us, with a PhD student and collaborator, and more and better experimental evidence was collected for the superiority of Bose-Einstein statistics in modeling specific situations in human language as compared to Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics (Aerts, Sozzo & Veloz, 2015b).