A new direction in fuzzy logic-toward a computational theory of perceptions

Abstract

Perceptions play a pivotal role in human cognition. The ability to reason with perceptions underlies the remarkable human capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. Everyday examples of such tasks are parking a car, driving in city traffic, playing golf, cooking a meal and summarizing a story. In an essential way, the capability to perform these tasks is based on the brain's ability to manipulate perceptions-perceptions of time, distance, force, direction, speed, shape, color, likelihood, intent, truth and other attributes of physical and mental objects.