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Quantum Social Science Bootcamp III | July 20, 2023 | Dominic Widdows

"Quantum Cognition and Language Processing" Dominic Widdows is a research scientist at IonQ, with many years of contributions to mathematics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, particularly as a researcher at Oxford and Stanford and a software engineer / data scientist at Google, Microsoft, Grab, and LivePerson. In commercial language processing he’s worked on applications including search, ontology learning, information extraction, machine translation, and keyword targeting. Dominic’s biggest research area has been in building and semantic vector models and uncovering their mathematical roots shared with quantum theory, including applying models based on quantum logic and entanglement to relation extraction and reasoning. He has helped author over 70 journal and conference papers, and the book Geometry and Meaning. His contributions to creating and supporting open source projects has included Infomap NLP, SemanticVectors, SkyMap, pilmaps, and lplangid. He loves gardening and playing music. About Quantum Social Science Bootcamp The hypothesis, or wager, behind quantum social science is that the human mind and behavior are more like the indeterminate and entangled sub-atomic phenomena described by quantum physics than they are like the deterministic inanimate objects described by classical mechanics. Yet, a century after the quantum revolution, the classical mechanistic worldview remains deeply baked into the ontology and methodology of the social sciences. Consider that every time we reach for probability theory in our work, social scientists are almost certainly – and probably unconsciously – reaching for classical probability theory, not its quantum cousin. Such classical thinking by default has come under growing pressure, however, from long-standing anomalies in human cognition and decision-making research, as well as seemingly intractable philosophical problems like the nature of consciousness. And now the doubts are intensifying with the emergence of a clear positive alternative, rooted in quantum assumptions about the mind and social world. Vigorous interdisciplinary research programs on quantum cognition and decision-making, quantum game theory, quantum social theory, quantum semantics, quantum biology and other domains have arisen precisely because they show potential to resolve many of the problems generated by classical thinking. If it turns out that the human mind and behavior are better described using a quantum rather than classical framework, then the social sciences will need to be rebuilt on a quantum foundation. And quantum physics, which we normally think of as the ultimate physical science, would turn out to be a human science as well. However, because few social scientists have ever considered quantum theory before, very few currently have the conceptual and/or mathematical skills to take advantage of it. Nor are many potential quantum social scientists washing up on the shores of graduate programs, since almost no one studies quantum theory in college except physics majors. Mershon Center’s Quantum Bootcamp, which has been made possible by a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is a response to this lack of supply of quantum expertise in the social sciences. Not that we can do much more than stir the pot in a week. But what we can do, by bringing together experts with capacities across different forms of quantum social science, is give students with little or no background a sense of why a quantum social science might be needed, and what its basic elements would be. From there, and as members of a growing interdisciplinary community of scholars like those represented at the bootcamp, participants should be able to begin further study on their own.