Application of Generalized Quantum Formalisms in Cognitive Science and Humor Research

Many branches of mathematics were first used to describe some aspect of the physical world, and later applied more broadly in other fields. It is in this spirit that the field of quantum cognition draws upon the formalisms of quantum mechanics. Quantum cognition does not posit that phenomena at the quantum level affect the brain; rather, it uses abstract formal structures that, as it happens, found their first application in quantum mechanics.