The Quantum Human Computer Hypothesis and Radical Minimalism: A brief introduction to Quantum Linguistics

Following Salmani Nodoushan’s (2008) proposal of the Quantum Human Computer Hypothesis, this paper begins with a comparison (and contrast) of digital computers and quantum computers to lead to conceptual and empirical evidence in support of a minimalist model of mind. The paper suggests that the Quantum Human Computer Hypothesis (QHCH) must nevertheless be completed with a more local theory of mental faculties, and that is where Radical Minimalism (Krivochen, 2011a) comes into play. The author aims at building a stipulation-free theory of the quantum mind-brain under Radically Minimalist tenets. The author takes language to be a physical system which shares the basic properties of all the physical systems the only difference being the properties of the elements that are manipulated in the relevant system. The author also draws readers attention to the proposal that in the physical world of language, the operations are taken to be very basic, simple and universal, as well as the constraints upon them, which are determined by the interaction with other systems, not by stipulative intra-theoretical filters. The paper ends with the proposal of a Strong Radically Minimalist thesis (SRMT). The term Quantum Linguistics is proposed and elaborated on for the first time.