Holistic Quantum Computational Semantics and Gestalt‐Thinking

Human perception like thinking seems to be essentially synthetic. We never perceive an object by scanning it point by point. We instead form right away a Gestalt, i.e. a global idea of it. Rational activity, as well, seems to be essentially based on gestaltic patterns. Quantum computation has suggested a new holistic semantics, which makes essential use of the characteristic “holistic” features of the quantum‐theoretic formalism. In this framework, meanings are represented by quantum information quantities: systems of qubits or, more generally, mixtures of systems of qubits. The global meaning of a compound expression (which may correspond to an entangled state) determines the meanings of its parts, but generally not the other way around.