From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words
@article{Zadeh2001FromCW,
title={From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words},
author={Lotfi A. Zadeh},
journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
year={2001},
volume={929}
}Abstract: Interest in issues relating to consciousness has grown markedly during the last several years. And yet, nobody can claim that consciousness is a well‐understood concept that lends itself to precise analysis. It may be argued that, as a concept, consciousness is much too complex to fit into the conceptual structure of existing theories based on Aristotelian logic and probability theory.
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