Fuzziness, Cognition and Cybernetics: an outlook on future

In the present paper, we connect some old reflectionsabout the relationships existing between the theory offuzzy sets and cybernetics with modern, contemporaryanalyses of the crucial (better: unavoidable) role thatfuzziness plays in the attempts at scientifically describingaspects of information sciences. The connection,which has a basic conceptual origin, has been triggeredalso by the recent 50th anniversary of Norbert Wiener’death which has been instrumental in looking again atsome crucial aspects of the birth of information sciencesin the midst of last Century. Fuzzy sets are an essentialpart of this revolution and share all the innovations aswell as the difficulties of this towering scientific enterprisewhich has changed the vision of what a scientificapproach must be when dealing with something like informationso different from the old matter and energy.These considerations are helpful in looking in an enlargedway at how treat and consider the notion of cognition.