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LETTERS, Page 8Oddball Thinking
I am reassured by your report on the mathematics that allows
computers to use "fuzzy logic" (TECHNOLOGY, Sept. 25) and simulate
the vagueness and uncertainty of ordinary life. Not every process
can be dealt with in Aristotelian terms. Fuzzy logic, as you
describe it, offers humankind liberation from the mechanistic
obsessions and literalism of rigid modes of thought and their
consequent frustrations and disappointments. For myself, I would
blend into the systems of fuzzy logic a tad of Zen as well, if Zen
can be quantified.
Ron Swearinger
Los Angeles
Once again an advance by the Japanese is attributed to some
innate factor of their culture. That the Japanese would utilize
technology based on a theory developed in the U.S. is more
attributable to the short-term outlook of America's business
community, where the accountant's bottom line governs investment
decisions. The Japanese have embraced an American process: creating
products through invention and good engineering.
Frank DeBritz
Manlius, N.Y.