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Human and Machine Intelligence — Between Fuzzy Logic and Daoist Thought

Authors : Liya Ding, Xiaogan Liu

Published in: Fifty Years of Fuzzy Logic and its Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The theory of fuzziness, offering an important scientific approach in building intelligent machines, has been researched and developed in the past fifty years from various perspectives and applied for real world problem solving in many areas. Daoist thought, being one of the most influential schools of Chinese philosophy, has been studied for more than two thousand years and its wisdom exploited from generation to generation. Would a natural echo exist between the modern fuzzy thinking and the ancient oriental Daoist thought?

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Footnotes
1
Lotfi A. Zadeh has distributed the same message repeatedly, the quotation here is from his message distributed to BISC online discussion group on Oct 2013.
 
2
The word Daoism suggests complicated thought system (or Daoist philosophy) and Daoist religious movements. In this essay, the Daoist theories are mainly based on the first Daoist text Daodejing (Tao-te-ching) or the Laozi (Lao-tzu). This has nothing to do with Daoist religious teachings. The quotations from the Laozi are based on Liu’s complication and adaptation from various versions and translations, unless specific citations provided otherwise.
 
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Metadata
Title
Human and Machine Intelligence — Between Fuzzy Logic and Daoist Thought
Authors
Liya Ding
Xiaogan Liu
Copyright Year
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19683-1_5

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