The passage above represents a classic decision situation for humans. It is expressed in
natural language – the form of information most used by humans and most ignored in
computer-assisted decision making. But, as suggested many other times in this text, this
is the nature of the problem engineers face every day: how do we embed natural fuzziness
into our otherwise crisp engineering paradigms? Shakespeare would undoubtedly rejoice
to learn that his question now has a whole range of possibilities available between the
extremes of existence that he originally suggested. Ultimately, the decisions may be
binary, as originally posed by Shakespeare in this passage from Hamlet, but there should
certainly be no restrictions on the usefulness of fuzzy information in the process of making
a decision or of coming to some consensus.