Quantum Bose-Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language
Abstract
We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a 'number concept' plus a 'substantive concept', such as 'eleven animals,' the identity and indistinguishability present on the level of the concepts, i.e., all eleven animals are identical and indistinguishable, gives rise to a statistical structure of the Bose-Einstein type similar to how Bose-Einstein statistics is present for identical and indistinguishable quantum particles. We proceed by identifying evidence for this hypothesis by extracting the statistical data from the World-Wide-Web utilizing the Google Search tool. By using the Kullback-Leibler divergence method, we then compare the obtained distribution with the Maxwell-Boltzmann as well as with the Bose-Einstein distributions and show that the Bose-Einstein's provides a better fit as compared to the Maxwell-Boltzmanns.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2021
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2103.15125
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210315125B
- Keywords:
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- Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition;
- Computer Science - Computation and Language;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 5 figures