Consistent History Approach to quantum theory, introduced in explicit form by Griffiths [1], provides an extension of the interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics. While standard quantum theory is based on the concept of event, represented by a projection operator E of the Hilbert spaceH describing the system, CHA is based on the concept of history, which is a finite ordered sequenc...

Many models of cognition neglect emotional states that could affect individuals‘ cognitive processes. The present study explores the effect of emotional stress on people‘s cognitive processes when making probabilistic inferences. It was hypothesized that emotional stress reduces cognitive capacity, leading to the selection of simple inference strategies. Emotional stress was induced with highly...

We propose a new approach to communication between agents that perform inductive inference. Consider a community of agents where each agent has a limited view of the overall world. When an agent in this community induces a hypothesis about the world, it necessarily reflects that agent’s partial view of the world. If an agent communicates a hypothesis to another agent, and that hypothesis is in ...

Transposable elements induce spontaneous mutations, promote genome rearrangements, regulate gene expression, and participate in the horizontal spread of genes encoding traits such as antibiotic resistance among bacterial genera too distantly related to undergo homologous recombination. Here we review the bacterial transposon Tn5 and focus on those aspects of its functional organization and tran...

There is a gap between two different modes of computation: the symbolic mode and the subsymbolic (neuron-like) mode. The aim of this paper is to overcome this gap by viewing symbolism as a high-level description of the properties of (a class of) neural networks. Combining methods of algebraic semantics and nonmonotonic logic, the possibility of integrating both modes of viewing cognition is dem...