First Blog

6/29/2025 1.      Introduction. Consider the question. Are there limits to human knowledge, and by association the art of problem-solving? Specifically, are there fundamental aspects of the universe that are truly unknowable, as in the impossibility of problems to be solved? Age old problems such as, “What is truth?” and “What is the origin of the universe?” are still mysteries. Will they be solved? Can they be solved? Do humans have what it takes to solve them? That is the situation at hand. As is the problem with these impossible-type problems, we are prone to offer half answers and partially solve perceptually incompletely understood problems. An important take-away is that knowledge and problem-solving are very dynamic in breadth and technique, respectively. Naturally, it is necessary to include some discussion about Artificial Intelligence, and whether it’s ready to take over. 2.      Resistance. We may refer to the fortress of human kn...

The Character of Wicked Problems.  Introduction. How to cure cancer? How to repair climate problems [i] ? How to fix the educational establishment? How to resolve medical healthcare issues? How can I solve the problems of my country? All of these are among the monumental problems of our day. All are highly complex, with hundreds or thousands of factors, and with no clear solutions. All are even hard to define in precise terms. To make matters worse, all depend on one’s point of view. This is the world of wicked problems. We put aside all these problems except those about our country since the others involve rather technical analyses, because the problems of the country are familiar to us all, and we know many of the issues. Moreover, we agree these problems are long unsolved but have differing views on how to solve them. And this is exactly the point! The diagram below illustrates the variegated nature of wicked problems with just three factors among many. Wicked Problems W...