Social Fuzziology, 9783790815061
Hardcover
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 inhere…

Social Fuzziology

study of fuzziness of social complexity

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  • Hardcover

    188 pages

  • Release Date

    3 September 2002

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Summary

The book applies the principles and insights of Fuzzy Logic to the complexity of social life. It draws on the full range of the social sciences, including some of the most up-to-date work on the escalating complexities of post modern life, e.g. new information technologies in a global world, new forms of consciousness and identity, new relationships between humans, machines, nature and environment. The volume is interdisciplinary, combining expertise from Fuzzy Logic and the Postmodern Social…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783790815061
ISBN-10:3790815063
Series:Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
Author:Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:Physica-Verlag GmbH & Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:188
Edition:2002nd
Release Date:3 September 2002
Weight:1.06kg
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm
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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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