Quantum information, cognition, and music

Front Psychol. 2015 Oct 21:6:1583. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01583. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Parallelism represents an essential aspect of human mind/brain activities. One can recognize some common features between psychological parallelism and the characteristic parallel structures that arise in quantum theory and in quantum computation. The article is devoted to a discussion of the following questions: a comparison between classical probabilistic Turing machines and quantum Turing machines.possible applications of the quantum computational semantics to cognitive problems.parallelism in music.

Keywords: Turing machines; music cognition; quantum computation; quantum information; semantics.