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Aerts, D., Czachor, M., and D'Hooghe, B. (2006) Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language. In Gontier, Nathalie and van Bendegem, Jean Paul and Aerts, Diederik, editors, Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach. Dordrecht: Springer.
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Abstract

We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change. In earlier research we revealed quantum structures in processes taking place in conceptual space. We argue that the presence of quantum structures in language and the earlier detected quantum structures in conceptual change make the neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme strictly too limited for Evolutionary Epistemology. We sketch how we believe that evolution in a more general way should be implemented in epistemology and conceptual change, but also in biology, and how this view would lead to another relation between both biology and epistemology.

Keywords: quantum, evolution, language, Bell's inequalities, context

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@incollection{aerts05quantumEvolution,
  author={Diederik Aerts and Marek Czachor and Bart D'Hooghe},
  title={Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language},
  year={2006},
  editor={Gontier, Nathalie and van Bendegem, Jean Paul and Aerts, Diederik},
  publisher={Dordrecht: Springer},
  booktitle={Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/aerts05quantumEvolution.html},
  keywords={quantum, evolution, language, Bell's inequalities, context}
}

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