{"product_id":"fuzzy-on-the-dark-side-ahmad-hijazi-9781803413860","title":"Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy are ignorant people so confident? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do politicians utilize conflation to influence groups? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do scientists fall for similar mistakes? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is complexity managed? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does culture effortlessly shape what we can do? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book argues: Because of approximations! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncompleteness pervades our interactions with the world. Its effects on individual and group behaviors can foster creativity or create invisible prisons. We navigate incompleteness with approximations and, too often, end up on the 'dark side'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuzzy on the Dark Side resembles a tourist's trip much more than a scientist's expedition, and is for anyone interested in a broader understanding of an individual's mental life and how identities, incompleteness, and social contexts shape it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs we examine approximations and think about their origins and the problems they can create, the reader will encounter glimpses from physics, biology, philosophy of science, management, marketing, politics, systems theory, fuzzy logic, geometry, design and creativity, culture, and neuro-science and more... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuzzy on the Dark Side is a book about incompleteness, creativity, thinking, identities, and systems. Roughly - it is an approximation of the 'Approximate Thinking' super idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahmad Hijazi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803413867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803413860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iff Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.63w x 0.23d","brand":"Ahmad Hijazi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598454354175,"sku":"9781803413860","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0b24e78-49d4-4331-855d-d775fe0d119a.jpg?v=1702382600","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fuzzy-on-the-dark-side-ahmad-hijazi-9781803413860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}