Social Fuzziology
Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity
Published on 1. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 188 pages
978-3-662-00309-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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"It is a book on postmodern philosophy which employs the terminology of soft computing and the theory of chaos as a metaphor and analogy. . The authors' ambition is to start bridging the gap between sciences and humanities. . the ideas exposed in the book may enrich the reader's thought . . Some parts of the book may certainly be found interesting, and the book may even help some people in the development of their own worldview . ." (Libor Behounek, Neural Network World, Vol. 14 (2), 2004)
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 188 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-662-00309-1 (9783662003091)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7908-1778-2
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Content
1 Introduction to Social Fuzziology.- 1.1 The Basic Postulate of Fuzziology.- 1.2 The Approach of Fuzziology.- 1.3 The Project of Social Fuzziology.- 1.4 Socrates' Wisdom at the Origin of Fuzziology.- 1.5 Principles of Fuzziology: A Social Perspective.- 1.6 Impossibility Theorems.- 1.7 Social Nature of Fuzziness.- 1.8 Human-centred Sources of Fuzziness.- 1.9 Transcending Duality and Non-duality.- 1.10 Consciousness Resonance.- 2 Bridging the Study of Complexity with Social Fuzziology.- 2.1 Complementarity and Mutual Enrichment.- 2.2 'Three Body Problem' in Fuzziology.- 2.3 Chaotic Attractors of Meaning.- 2.4 Key Propositions in Social Fuzziology: A Complexity Perspective.- 2.5 Fuzzy Logic and Fuzziology.- 2.6 Fuzziology and Creativity.- 3 Understanding Fuzziness of Ourselves.- 3.1 Paradox of Mind.- 3.2 Journey towards Understanding Ourselves.- 3.3 Human Experiential Space.- 3.4 Maieutic Inquiry into the Essence of Human Dynamics.- 3.5 Empowering the Thinker.- 4 Understanding Fuzziness of Society.- 4.1 Infinite Life of Society versus Finite Lives of Individuals.- 4.2 Collective Mind: A Pile of Fragmented Knowledge.- 4.3 From Understanding Ourselves to Understanding Society.- 4.4 Lack of Wisdom in Society.- 4.5 Towards Establishment of Global Empire.- 4.6 Education and Learning in Society.- 4.7 The Health Illusion.- 4.8 Dealing with Hard Negotiation.- 4.9 Conclusion.- 5 Case Studies: Understanding Fuzzy Social Categories.- 5.1 What is 'Australian'?.- 5.2 Use and Abuse of Fuzziness in Social Life.- 5.3 Fuzzy Borders in the Globalising World.- 5.4 'Mexican Americans', 'Chicanos' and Santana.- 6 Fuzziness of the West and the East.- 6.1 Fuzzy Dionysos.- 6.2 Philosophy of Flux.- 6.3 Other Masters of Fuzziology from the West.- 6.4 Myths of Fuzziness.- 6.5 TheFuzzy Wisdom of Tao.- 6.6 Aboriginal Wisdom.- 6.7 Using Fuzziness of the Ancient Wisdom.- 7 Key Terms in the Language of Fuzziology.- 7.1 Fuzziness Defined.- 7.2 The Logos of Logic.- 7.3 Transformations.- 7.4 Transcendence.- 7.5 Understanding.- 7.6 The Social.- 7.7 Conclusion.- References.