In physics, entanglement 'reduces' the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) entropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lower than the entropy of the component sub-entities. We show here that this 'genuinely non-classical reduction of entropy as a result of composition' also holds whenever two concepts combine in human cognition and, more generally, it is valid in human culture. We exploit these results and make a 'new hypothesis' on the nature of entanglement, namely, the production of entanglement in the preparation of a composite entity can be seen as a 'dynamical process of collaboration between its sub-entities to reduce uncertainty', because the composite entity is in a pure state while its sub-entities are in a non-pure, or density, state, as a result of the preparation. We identify within the nature of this entanglement a mechanism of contextual updating and illustrate the mechanism in the example we analyze. Our hypothesis naturally explains the 'non-classical nature' of some quantum logical connectives, as due to Bell-type correlations.

翻译：在物理学中，纠缠"降低"了一个实体的熵，因为例如，处于纯纠缠态的双组分复合实体的（冯·诺依曼）熵系统性地低于其子组分的熵。我们在此表明，这种"因复合而导致的真正非经典熵降低"在人类认知中两个概念结合时同样成立，并且更普遍地，它在人类文化中也有效。我们利用这些结果，对纠缠的本质提出"新假设"：即在制备复合实体过程中产生的纠缠可被视为"其子实体之间为降低不确定性而进行的动态协作过程"，这是因为复合实体在制备后处于纯态，而其子实体则处于非纯态（即密度态）。我们识别出纠缠本质中的一种情境更新机制，并通过分析实例阐述该机制。我们的假设自然解释了某些量子逻辑联结词的"非经典性质"，将其归因于贝尔型关联。