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TY - GEN ID - cogprints3416 UR - http://cogprints.org/3416/ A1 - Aerts, Diederik A1 - Aerts, Sven A1 - Broekaert, Jan A1 - Gabora, Liane Y1 - 2000/10// N2 - We show that Bell inequalities can be violated in the macroscopic world. The macroworld violation is illustrated using an example involving connected vessels of water. We show that whether the violation of inequalities occurs in the microworld or in the macroworld, it is the identification of nonidentical events that plays a crucial role. Specifically, we prove that if nonidentical events are consistently differentiated, Bell-type Pitowsky inequalities are no longer violated, even for Bohm's example of two entangled spin 1/2 quantum particles. We show how Bell inequalities can be violated in cognition, specifically in the relationship between abstract concepts and specific instances of these concepts. This supports the hypothesis that genuine quantum structure exists in the mind. We introduce a model where the amount of nonlocality and the degree of quantum uncertainty are parameterized, and demonstrate that increasing nonlocality increases the degree of violation, while increasing quantum uncertainty decreases the degree of violation. PB - Plenum/Kluwer KW - Bell inequalities KW - quantum KW - nonlocality KW - uncertainty KW - microworld KW - macroworld KW - EPR paradox KW - Pitowsky inequalities KW - Clauser Horne Inequalities KW - category KW - concept KW - memory KW - distributed memory KW - entanglement KW - radial basis function KW - conceptual space KW - content addressability KW - abstraction KW - closure KW - phase transition KW - association KW - hierarchy KW - reminding KW - reminding TI - The Violation of Bell Inequalities in the Macroworld SP - 1387 AV - public EP - 1414 ER -