?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Cultural+evolution+entails+(creativity+entails+(concept+combination+entails+quantum+structure))&rft.creator=Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=The+theory+of+natural+selection+cannot+describe+how+early+life+evolved%2C+in+part+because+acquired+characteristics+are+passed+on+through+horizontal+exchange.+It+has+been+proposed+that+culture%2C+like+life%2C+began+with+the+emergence+of+autopoietic+form%2C+thus+its+evolution+too+cannot+be+described+by+natural+selection.+The+evolution+of+autopoietic+form+can+be+described+using+a+framework+referred+to+as+Context-driven+Actualization+of+Potential+(CAP)%2C+which+grew+out+of+a+generalization+of+the+formalisms+of+quantum+mechanics%2C+and+encompasses+nondeterministic+as+well+as+deterministic+change+of+state.+The+autopoietic+structure+that+evolves+through+culture+is+the+mind%2C+or+more+accurately+the+conceptual+network+that+yields+an+individual's+internal+model+of+the+world.+A+branch+of+CAP+research+referred+to+as+the+state-context-property+(SCOP)+formalism+provides+a+mathematical+framework+for+reconciling+the+stability+of+conceptual+structure+with+its+susceptibility+to+context-driven+change.+The+combination+of+two+or+more+concepts+(an+extreme+case+of+contextual+influence)%2C+as+occurs+in+insight%2C+is+modeled+as+a+state+of+entanglement.+Theoretical+and+empirical+findings+are+presented+that+challenge+assumptions+underlying+virtually+all+of+cognitive+science%2C+such+as+the+notion+of+spreading+activation+and+the+assumption+that+cognitive+processes+can+be+described+with+a+Kolmogorovian+probability+model.&rft.publisher=AAAI+Press%2C+Menlo+Park%2C+California&rft.contributor=Bruza%2C+Dr.+Peter+D.&rft.contributor=Lawless%2C+Dr.+William&rft.contributor=van+Rijsbergen%2C+Dr.+Keith&rft.contributor=Sofge%2C+Dr.+Donald+A.&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5584%2F1%2Fqi.htm&rft.identifier=++Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.++(2007)+Cultural+evolution+entails+(creativity+entails+(concept+combination+entails+quantum+structure)).++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5584%2F