Following an early claim by Nelson & McEvoy (35) suggesting that word associations can display 'spooky action at a distance behaviour', a serious investigation of the potentially quantum nature of such associations is currently underway. In this paper quantum theory is proposed as a framework suitable for modelling the human mental lexicon, specifically the results obtained from both intralist ...

A new paradigm is discussed in which the discrete facet of physical phenomenology is related to the existence of localized wave solutions (solitons) of a underlying metacontinuum (uniied eld, physical vacuum, etc.) while the action at a distance is a manifestation of the internal stresses in metacontinuum. The latter is considered as thin elastic 3D layer (a shell) in the 4D geometrical space. ...

The one thing everyone knows about quantum mechanics is its legendary weirdness, in which the basic tenets of the world it describes seem alien to the world we live in. Superposition, where things can be in two states simultaneously, a switch both on and off, a cat both dead and alive. Or entanglement, what Einstein called "spooky action-at-distance" in which objects are invisibly linked, even ...

Correlations related to quantum entanglement have convinced many physicists that there must be some at-a-distance connection between separated events, at the quantum level. In the late 1940s, however, O. Costa de Beauregard proposed that such correlations can be explained without action at a distance, so long as the influence takes a zigzag path, via the intersecting past lightcones of the even...

The paper considers how to scale up dialogue protocols to multilogue, settings with multiple conversationalists. We extract two benchmarks to evaluate scaled up protocols based on the long distance resolution possibilities of nonsentential utterances in dialogue and multilogue in the British National Corpus. In light of these benchmarks, we then consider three possible transformations to dialog...

Suppose we wanted to implement a particle simulator with a “floor”: a solid horizontal plane which particles could bounce off of, or lie on. Assuming all the particles started out above the floor, they’d all have to stay there for the rest of the simulation. How could we go about implementing this? Clearly, there are two problems. We need to detect when particles are near the floor, and when th...

The notion that the brain (encephalon) is a network of interconnected neurons has a long and memorable history. Cytoarchitectonic and hodological studies coupled with advanced neuroimaging techniques have produced a substantial body of knowledge on structural and functional organization. Acquiring the rich knowledge held today took a long and winding journey. Important advancements were made in...