September 2005 Conference On The Present Status of Quantum Mechanics at Mali Losinj (76 of 82)

Human perception and thinking seem to be essentially synthetic. We never perceive an object by scanning it point by point; we instead form right away a Gestalt, a global idea of it. Gestalt-thinking processes cannot be adequately represented in the framework of classical semantics, which is basically represented in the framework of classical semantics, which is basically compositional and analytical: the meaning of a whole is determined by the meanings of its parts, and not vice versa. Quantum computational semantics provides a mathematical formalism for an abstract theory of meanings.