fuzzy logic

[jeremy]

[was: the logic of the infinite]

--- Kyle wrote:
I think you are thinking/imagining at too high a level.  No useful
conclusions can be made when you are not bounded by the mess we call
reality of computing.
---

Then I'll step down a notch. :)   I will leave aside all notions of subjectivity (and the Infinite), as computer systems are only able to deal with users' behaviour, not the users themselves.

--- Alexis:
It is very neccessary though, to be able to view the different 
levels of abstraction depending on the user's needs.
---

OK. So let's say our user needs to abstract the human heartbeat, say for a biofeedback device. Are we primarily concerned with the user's needs -- abstracting a harmonic, analog, cyclical, highly variable event -- or with our computer system's need for granular division of time and information into byte-sized equal segments? The two needs -- those of the user and those of the computer/programmer -- are relatively opposed in this case. Whose needs take precedence?

In other words, is an OS to be judged primarily by its ability to abstract computer hardware or real-world events? Is this basically the same as the distinction between the LLL and the HLL? What possibilities are there for reconciling the two (digital and analog information, right- and left-brain activity)?

Can this kind of conflict be addressed by fuzzy logic? To what extent is fuzzy logic relevant to a Tunes-like system?

questions, questions, questions...




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