When you hear the word “jaguar”, do think of the car or of the animal? 

Research has shown that words are stored in our memories not as isolated entities but as part of a network of related words. But it is still not clear, how this word association network functions.

Quantum theory might provide an explanation: Words can become entangled in the human mental lexicon.

According to the quantum mind theory of Hameroff-Penrose (wikipedia.org) there might be quantum processes in the human brain. What do you think? 

(via physorg.com)

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