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Negative probabilities and counter-factual reasoning in quantum cognition

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2015-06-19 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper we discuss quantum-like decision-making experiments using negative probabilities. We do so by showing how the two-slit experiment, in the simplified version of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, can be described by this formalism. We show that negative probabilities impose constraints to what types of counter-factual reasoning we can make with respect to (quantum) internal representations of the decision maker.

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@article{arxiv.1404.3921,
  title  = {Negative probabilities and counter-factual reasoning in quantum cognition},
  author = {J. Acacio de Barros and Gary Oas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3921},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Submitted to the proceedings of the Vaxjo conference in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 2013

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