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At the beginning of the new millennium, fuzzy logic opens a new
challenging perspective in information processing. This perspective
emerges out of the ideas of the founder of fuzzy logic - Lotfi
Zadeh, to develop 'soft' tools for direct computing with human
perceptions. The enigmatic nature of human perceptions manifests in
their unique capacity to generalize, extract patterns and capture
both the essence and the integrity of the events and phenomena in
human life. This capacity goes together with an intrinsic
imprecision of the perception-based information. According to
Zadeh, it is because of the imprecision of the human imprecision
that they do not lend themselves to meaning representation through
the use of precise methods based on predicate logic. This is the
principal reason why existing scientific theories do not have the
capability to operate on perception-based information. We are at
the eve of the emergence of a theory with such a capability. Its
applicative effectiveness has been already demonstrated through the
industrial implementation of the soft computing - a powerful
intelligent technology centred in fuzzy logic. At the focus of the
papers included in this book is the knowledge and experience of the
researchers in relation both to the engineering applications of
soft computing and to its social and philosophical implications at
the dawn of the third millennium. The papers clearly demonstrate
that Fuzzy Logic revolutionizes general approaches for solving
applied problems and reveals deep connections between them and
their solutions.
Fuzziology studies the fuzziness inherent in what we know about
ourselves, the sources and nature of our experience, our thoughts
and feelings, drives for understanding and urges to create and
realise our potential. This kind of fuzziness is at the core of our
existence, at the essence of our humanness. It affects any field of
human activity, be it mathematical study of fuzzy equations and
fuzzy integrals; engineering design and implementation of fuzzy
logic-based methodologies; fuzzy control systems or fuzzy robots.
Social fuzziology investigates the role of fuzziness in
understanding the dynamic complexity of human existence in the
social world. It is a study of the nexus between the complex
demands of life -individual and social -and the fuzziness of
thinking. Since human evolution over 2 billion years has seen the
co-evolution of social complexity with human language and thought,
it is likely that the fuzziness of language and thought is
especially intimately formed by the demands of social complexity,
just as social complexity is sustained by the inherent fuzziness of
language and thought. Social fuzziology is not simply one field of
application of fuzziology. Given the initial state of the
development of fuzziology, social fuzziology needs to develop hand
in hand with fuzziology, each helping to advance the other.
Fuzzy logic is a way of thinking that is responsive to human zeal
to unveil uncertainty and deal with social paradoxes emerging from
it. In this book a number of articles illustrate various social
applications to fuzzy logic. The engineering part of the book
contains a number of papers, devoted to the description of fuzzy
engineering design methodologies. In order to share the experience
gained we select papers describing not the application result only
but the way how this result has been obtained, that is explaining
the design procedures. The potential readership of this book
includes researchers and students, workers and engineers in both
areas of social and engineering studies. It can be used as a
handbook and textbook also. The book includes some examples of real
fuzzy engineering.
Fuzziology studies the fuzziness inherent in what we know about
ourselves, the sources and nature of our experience, our thoughts
and feelings, drives for understanding and urges to create and
realise our potential. This kind of fuzziness is at the core of our
existence, at the essence of our humanness. It affects any field of
human activity, be it mathematical study of fuzzy equations and
fuzzy integrals; engineering design and implementation of fuzzy
logic-based methodologies; fuzzy control systems or fuzzy robots.
Social fuzziology investigates the role of fuzziness in
understanding the dynamic complexity of human existence in the
social world. It is a study of the nexus between the complex
demands of life -individual and social -and the fuzziness of
thinking. Since human evolution over 2 billion years has seen the
co-evolution of social complexity with human language and thought,
it is likely that the fuzziness of language and thought is
especially intimately formed by the demands of social complexity,
just as social complexity is sustained by the inherent fuzziness of
language and thought. Social fuzziology is not simply one field of
application of fuzziology. Given the initial state of the
development of fuzziology, social fuzziology needs to develop hand
in hand with fuzziology, each helping to advance the other.
At the beginning of the new millennium, fuzzy logic opens a new
challenging perspective in information processing. This perspective
emerges out of the ideas of the founder of fuzzy logic - Lotfi
Zadeh, to develop 'soft' tools for direct computing with human
perceptions. The enigmatic nature of human perceptions manifests in
their unique capacity to generalize, extract patterns and capture
both the essence and the integrity of the events and phenomena in
human life. This capacity goes together with an intrinsic
imprecision of the perception-based information. According to
Zadeh, it is because of the imprecision of the human imprecision
that they do not lend themselves to meaning representation through
the use of precise methods based on predicate logic. This is the
principal reason why existing scientific theories do not have the
capability to operate on perception-based information. We are at
the eve of the emergence of a theory with such a capability. Its
applicative effectiveness has been already demonstrated through the
industrial implementation of the soft computing - a powerful
intelligent technology centred in fuzzy logic. At the focus of the
papers included in this book is the knowledge and experience of the
researchers in relation both to the engineering applications of
soft computing and to its social and philosophical implications at
the dawn of the third millennium. The papers clearly demonstrate
that Fuzzy Logic revolutionizes general approaches for solving
applied problems and reveals deep connections between them and
their solutions.
Ecology of immortality focuses its study in the power of the
potentiality we have within us, in the ways of its realization for
our growth in self-awareness and consciousness. It is ecology of a
life that unfolds in potentiality, a life that is endowed with
endless possibilities for self-realization - a life that never
ends. The research findings of the authors are linked with the
Many-Worlds Interpretation supported by the leading quantum
physicists of our time. The book is a practical guide how to
amplify the power of our potentiality so that it could trigger a
unique process of transformation of our consciousness at the moment
of death, a process that opens infinite space for its further
evolution and growth. For researchers in the fields of human
dynamics and quantum systems, social ecology, educational practice
and psychology, as well as for everyone who wants to know more
about the art of living in a healthy and fulfilling way, this book
is a catalyst for exciting new insights.
This book is a guide to live wholesomely, in a healthy and
fulfilling way, under the critical conditions of our epoch - an
epoch when nature has reached the Point of No Return and the only
way to restore its delicate balance and harmony is by freeing
itself from the self-destructive actions of the main perpetrator of
today's ecological crime - our society and civilization. It
illuminates practical insights of vital importance for those who
are determined to grow in wisdom and spirit.
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