(2019-11-07, 09:29 PM)Max_B Wrote: Yes, a bit like that... but... probably a bit more accurate to say that "alike patterns add up" - the adding up is non-classical (transcends spacetime)... the patterns are some temporal and/or spatial combination (in spacetime).Max,
I thought of a phrase that may express this adding of environmental patterns, including concepts, that can accumulate into structured wholes. -- "an idea whose time has come" These holistic structures present as overall states apart from linear physical causes. The paper below maybe a clear way to quantify such claims.
Quote: An additive and operational entanglement measure: conditional entanglement of mutual informationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.3683.pdf
Based on the monogamy of entanglement, we develop the technique of quantum conditioning to build an additive entanglement measure: the conditional entanglement of mutual information. Its operational meaning is elaborated to be the minimal net ”flow of qubits” in the process of partial state merging. The result and conclusion can also be generalized to multipartite entanglement cases.
The math of this paper is far beyond my very limited reach. However, a good "Bob and Alice" example is always fun to think about.
a side note - stochastic resonance is fundamentally measured in terms of a gain in mutual information
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