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Classifying the information content of neural spike trains, an uncertainty relation emerges between the bit size of a word and its duration. This uncertainty is ruled by a quantum constant whose numerical value has nothing to do with Planck’s constant.
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Arecchi, F.T. (2017). Fiat Lux Versus Fiat Lumen: Quantum Effects in Linguistic Operations. In: La Mantia, F., Licata, I., Perconti, P. (eds) Language in Complexity. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29483-4_8
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