The Relevance of Bell-Type Inequalities for Mental Systems

摘要

We compare some basic inequalities due to Bell and others, originally proposed to test hidden variable models in quantum theory, and explore their implications for mental systems. We find that violations of such inequalities outside quantum systems may exceed the quantum bound. We propose (conscious or unconscious) priming as a most intuitive and plausible interpretation for such violations and sketch a few examples supporting this conjecture.