Fuzziness, Cognition and Cybernetics: a historical perspective

DOI

10.2991/ifsa-eusflat-15.2015.199How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cybernetics, fuzzy set, fuzziness.

Abstract

In the present paper, we connect some old reflections about the relationships existing between the theory of fuzzy sets and cybernetics with modern, contemporary analyses of the crucial (better: unavoidable) role that fuzziness plays in the attempts at scientifically describing aspects of information sciences. The connection, which has a basic conceptual origin, has been triggered also by the recent 50th anniversary of Norbert Wiener’s death which has been instrumental in looking again at some crucial aspects of the birth of information sciences in the midst of the last century. Fuzzy sets are an essential part of this revolution and share all the innovations as well as the difficulties of this towering scientific enterprise which has changed the vision of what a scientific approach must be when dealing with something like information so different from the old matter and energy. t These considerations are helpful in looking in an enlarged way at how to treat and consider the notion of cognition.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rudolf Seising
AU  - Marco Elio Tabacchi
AU  - Settimo Termini
AU  - Enric Trillas
PY  - 2015/06
DA  - 2015/06
TI  - Fuzziness, Cognition and Cybernetics: a historical perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1407
EP  - 1412
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/ifsa-eusflat-15.2015.199
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