2007/08/22 by Riccardo Franco, Franco, Riccardo
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.2972
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In the present article we consider the inverse fallacy, a well known cognitive heuristic experimentally tested in cognitive science, which occurs for intuitive judgments in situations of bounded rationality. We show that the quantum formalism can be used to describe in a very simple and general way this fallacy within the quantum formalism. Thus we suggest that in cognitive science the formalism of quantum mechanics can be used to describe a quantum regime, the bounded-rationality regime, where the cognitive heuristics are valid.