ABSTRACT

From childhood, we have been taught strict rules that we at first believed always hold true. We may have assumed that the world moves by these strict rules. If you ask a child to solve an arithmetic problem, that child can follow the arithmetic rules to find a 100 percent correct solution. But there is another paradigm of thought. In the real world, it is not always possible to be precise in finding answers or solutions to problems. In many situations, natural systems tend to do things that they believe are true rather than things that are compulsorily true. The foundations of defining strict procedures, rules, and methods hence fail if the underlying belief fails. But this gives us an exciting view of a world that is driven by belief, impreciseness, and approximations and that we all have observed numerable times in our daily decision making.