ATTENTION: the seminar will take place this Friday, September 25, and not October 25.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Evo Busseniers <[email protected]> wrote: > Please distribute to others who may be interested... > > You are hereby invited to a seminar in our eleventh interdisciplinary series > on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> > (ECCO 2015-2016) > > Time: Friday October 25 , 14h-16h > > Place: CLEA, Krijgskundestraat 33 > > > ------------------------------ > > History and new perspectives in quantum cognition > > Tomas Veloz <https://people.ok.ubc.ca/tomveloz/homepage.htm> > > (University of British Columbia) > > > > > Abstract: > > Information processing at a conceptual level is considered to be one of > the hardest challenges in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. > While computer scientists and engineers have focused on developing advances > for particular tasks, philosophers and cognitive scientists have focused on > elucidating the structural nature of meaning. A remarkable bridge between > these two limited-success approaches can be found in behavioral research, > since, in a variety of tasks, humans process information at a conceptual > level in a way that is incompatible with classical probability and fuzzy > set theory. Recently, this incompatibility has been shown to occur at a > deep structural level, and attempts have been made to use mathematical > schemes founded on quantum structures as alternative approaches. For this > reason, the application of quantum structures to this type of phenomena has > received increasing attention. The quantum approach to cognition allows to > faithfully model a number of non-classical deviations observed in > experimental data. Moreover, it shows that genuine quantum theoretical > notions, such as contextuality, superposition, emergence and entanglement, > are interesting epistemic tools to understand and represent hard problems > in Artificial Intelligence. In this talk, we identify some of the > limitations of classical theories to handle some important cognitive tasks, > introduce the fundamentals of this quantum cognitive approach, and discuss > its possible applications. > > ------------------------------ > > The new series will start fully at October 16. > > > > See also the ECCO/GBI calendar > <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> > . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here > <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> > > > More info about the ECCO seminar program: > http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 > > > -- > Evo > > Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator > ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers > <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/> > -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
