We see Boolean Logic every day, though those unfamiliar with it may not realize it is Boolean Logic. Most light switches have the settings of off and on. The computer in front of you is built on Boolean logic. Maybe even the way one looks at the world is influenced by Boolean Logic - and maybe that view has become dominant. And maybe that's not good. Or bad¹.

Being the son of an engineer and raised by² that engineer, Boolean logic was a fact of life. Being the nephew of a computer analyst who then liked to womanize and drink more than write code³, the Boolean logic was reinforced by writing code while he was attending his likes. It gives the world a solid state of being. No pun intended.

But the world is bigger than that. It's bigger than '1' and '0' and all the permutations in between. Some light switches are dimmers now. Ask two people what warm is and you'll likely end up with two different objective temperatures. Is something pornography or art? Grey is neither black nor white.

I was fortunate enough to delve into Fuzzy Logic almost 15 years ago. At the time I was dealing with problems that needed to deal with subjective information and make it as objective as possible to control a piece of equipment. Fuzzy logic actually ended up being a part of the solution.

With Fuzzy Logic, inexact information can be dealt with. Something can be both right and wrong to varying degrees - called truth values. What a useful tool, allowing something to be measured in degrees of truth and false. In degrees of Right and Wrong. And I wondered why it hadn't become as common-place in the West as it had in the East.

Popular western religion seems to require a Boolean approach³. If it isn't good, it's evil. This can end up in some perverted Boolean Logic. Consider: