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Fiat Lux Versus Fiat Lumen: Quantum Effects in Linguistic Operations

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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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    Fortunato Tito Arecchi

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    Francesco La Mantia

  2. Institute for Scientific Methodology ISEM c/o CNR, Palermo, Italy

    Ignazio Licata

  3. Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Università di Messina Dipartimento di scienze Cognitive, Messina, Italy

    Pietro Perconti

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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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