Focusing on the power of potentiality within individuals, this book explores self-awareness and consciousness growth. It presents a life filled with endless possibilities for self-realization, supported by the Many-Worlds Interpretation from leading quantum physicists. A practical guide, it aims to amplify personal potential, facilitating a transformative process at the moment of death that allows for continued evolution and growth. Ideal for researchers in human dynamics, social ecology, and psychology, it offers valuable insights for anyone seeking a fulfilling life.
At the start of the new millennium, fuzzy logic presents a fresh perspective in information processing, inspired by its founder, Lotfi Zadeh. This approach aims to create 'soft' tools for computing with human perceptions, which are characterized by their ability to generalize, recognize patterns, and capture the essence of various phenomena. However, this capacity is accompanied by an intrinsic imprecision in perception-based information. Zadeh argues that this imprecision prevents such information from being accurately represented using precise methods like predicate logic, which limits the effectiveness of existing scientific theories in handling perception-based data. We are on the cusp of developing a theory that can address this challenge, as evidenced by the successful industrial applications of soft computing—a robust technology rooted in fuzzy logic. The papers in this collection reflect the knowledge and experiences of researchers regarding both the engineering applications of soft computing and its broader social and philosophical implications at the dawn of the third millennium. They illustrate how fuzzy logic transforms conventional approaches to problem-solving and uncovers profound connections between problems 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.
