Speaker
Description
The purpose and background of this workshop and the current status of this research field will be overviewed, in relation with the development of quantum computation and quantum computers and their expected potential application to the studies of humanities and social sciences in the immediate future.
Ref: Iriki A, Tanaka S. (2024) Potential of the Path Integral and quantum computing for the study of humanities: An underlying principle of human evolution and the function of consciousness. Global Perspectives, 5, 115651.
Iriki is a primate cognitive neuroscientist, who had been a RIKEN Team Leader (2004~2023, BSI & BDR) and is currently a PI of RIKEN-Quantum’s Humanities section, and a Research Supervisor of JST CREST Multi-Sensing projects. He proposed an original theory of human evolution named “Triadic Niche Construction” (Phil Trans Royal Soc B, 367: 10~23, 2012), that led him to study its path integral nature.
