The Theory of Problem-Solution Dualities and Polarities: Information-Decision-Choice Foundations of the Unity of Knowing and the Unity of Science

This book explores the development of understanding relational structures of information, knowledge, decision-making, and problem-solving in theory and practice regarding diversity and unity principles. It continues the author's previous epistemic works on fuzzy rationality, info-statics, info-dynamics, entropy, and their connections to information, language, knowing, knowledge, cognitive practices, and social transformations. The book argues that problem-solution dualities connect all areas of knowing, including science and non-science, and proposes a neuro-decision-choice approach to support human existence and nonexistence over static-dynamic dualities. It defines and explicates concepts of diversity and unity, problem and solution, and connects them to decision-making tactics and strategies. The book is useful for research, learning, and teaching in advanced stages of knowing and knowledge production.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book delves into the intricate development of understanding the relational structures of information, knowledge, decision-making processes, and problem-solving approaches in the context of diversity and unity principles. It serves as a continuation of the author's previous epistemic works on fuzzy rationality, info-statics, info-dynamics, entropy, and their interconnectedness with information, language, knowing, knowledge, cognitive practices, and various dualities related to identification, problem-solving, and transformation. The book adopts an economic-theoretic approach to explore the diversity and unity of knowing and science through neuro-decision-making actions within the framework of problem-solution dualities and polarities. The problem-solution dualities are posited as the connecting threads that unite all areas of knowing, including science and non-science, social science, and non-social science, through neuro-decision-making processes. These dualities are argued to support human existence and nonexistence across the dynamic space of static-dynamic dualities. The concepts of diversity and unity are defined and elucidated to connect to the tactics and strategies employed in decision-making processes across the problem-solution space. Rather than viewing problem and solution in absolute terms, the book emphasizes their relativity, grounded in real cost-benefit conditions, which are shown to be interconnected with the overarching parent-offspring infinite process. By examining these concepts within the framework of relativity, the book offers valuable insights into the complexities of knowledge, decision-making, and problem-solving in diverse and unity-oriented contexts.

Weight: 528g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030902810
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022