Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Separability is a concept that is very difficult to define, and yet much of our scientific method is implicitly based upon the assumption that systems can sensibly be reduced to a set of interacting components. This paper examines the notion of separability in the creation of bi-ambiguous compounds that is based upon the CHSH and CH inequalities. It reports re-sults of an experiment showing that violations of the CHSH and CH inequality can occur in human conceptual combina-tion. 1 Separability and its Representation Separability is a concept that is very difficult to define, and yet much of our scientific method is implicitly based upon the assumption that systems can sensibly be reduced to a set of interacting components. This assumption has been cap-tured in the hidden variable models of physics, which make explicit the separability of a system in terms of probability distributions. Thus, if the two components of a system are somehow ‘distant ’ then it makes sense to assume that actions performed upon one region will not effect the results that are obtained in the other region. A general scenario representing this case is illustrated in figure 1. Figure 1: A general scenario illustrating the separability of a system consisting of two distant components. Here, a system consisting of two components is frequently considered separable due to the fact that the components are
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Australian Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W58688798