Fuzzy Logic and Wishful Thinking

Fuzzy logic is a concept that allows theories and calculations to venture beyond the black and white of true or false into a spectrum of perception that may include possibility, probability and uncertainty. It is a concept that allows open-ended or variable responses to systems designed for artificial intelligence because it can offer multi-layered options depending on circumstances. A picture produced based on fuzzy logic is not always sharp or clear cut and may generate as many questions as answers.

Wishful thinking, on the other hand, takes a brush and paints over both true and false, unconsciously but willfully blurring the lines of reality to force them into a preconceived pattern of desire, a subjective response to an objective situation. There is a rose-coloured vision of possibility, a magnified sense of probability and a diminished allowance for uncertainty. We want something to happen and therefore we are convinced that it will happen.

Hope and imagination can still live and breathe within both frameworks, but in my mind, wishful thinking is less helpful in achieving a creative solution to a problem because it assumes too much and ignores the strokes that fall outside the lines of the preconceived answer. I think that creative work can draw a great deal more sustenance from fuzzy logic: an experimental and open-minded approach that proposes IF-THEN scenarios based on a wide range of measurements and questions. a left-brained balance to a right-brain process, offering a sense of multiple possibilities and probabilities with some factual basis in variable data and seasoned with a healthy dose of uncertainty. 

But maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...  :)