Lester Beltran

Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Inspired by foundational studies in classical and quantum physics, and by information retrieval studies in quantum information theory, we prove that the notions of 'energy' and 'entropy' can be consistently introduced in human language and, …

The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Some Insights from the Research on Human Language

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Identical systems, or entities, are indistinguishable in quantum mechanics (QM), and the symmetrization postulate rules the possible statistical distributions of a large number of identical quantum entities. However, a thorough analysis on the historical development …