An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling presents a new approach to cognition that challenges long-held views. It systematically develops a broad-based framework to model cognition, which is mathematically equivalent to the emerging ‘quantum-like modelling’ of the human mind.

The book argues that a satisfactory physical and philosophical basis of such an approach is missing, a particular issue being the application of quantization to the mind for which there is no empirical evidence as yet. In response to this issue, the book adopts a COM (classical optical modelling) approach, broad-based but mathematically equivalent to quantum-like modelling while avoiding its problematic features. It presents a philosophically informed and empirically motivated mathematical model of cognition, mainly concerning decision-making processes. It also deals with applications to different areas of the social sciences.

It will be of interest to scholars and research students interested in the mathematical modelling of cognition and decision-making, and also interdisciplinary researchers interested in broader issues of cognition.

Partha Ghose, Distinguished Fellow, Tagore Centre for Natural Sciences and Philosophy, Kolkata. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology.

Sudip Patra, Associate Professor at OP Jindal Global University, India, and Founding member CEASP. Research Fellow at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Italy.