Modeling Intertwined Humanity: Neutrosophic Complete Graphs, Ubuntu, and the Logic of Not
The human experience, at its most fundamental level, is one of interconnectedness. No individual exists in isolation; identities are forged, values are shaped, and realities are co-constructed within a complex web of relationships. Yet, traditional Western philosophical and scientific models often e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of New Mexico
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Neutrosophic Sets and Systems |
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| Online Access: | https://fs.unm.edu/NSS/1IntertwinedHumanity.pdf |
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| Summary: | The human experience, at its most fundamental level, is one of interconnectedness. No individual exists in isolation; identities are forged, values are shaped, and realities are co-constructed within a complex web of relationships. Yet, traditional Western philosophical and scientific models often emphasize individualism and discrete entities, probably influenced by traditional Aristotelian logic, struggling to fully capture the fluid, ambiguous, and often contradictory nature of these interdependencies. The challenge, then, is to develop a modeling framework capable of expressing such profound and multi-faceted entanglement, especially when relationships are characterized by ambiguity, partial truths, or even co-existing contradictions. Classical graph theory, with its binary edges (either a connection exists or it does not), falls short. This article argues that the Neutrosophic complete graph, a powerful extension of fuzzy and intuitionistic fuzzy graph theory, offers a promising mathematical instrument for precisely this purpose. By incorporating degrees of truth, falsehood, and crucially, indeterminacy (or neutrality/hesitancy) into its representation of nodes and relationships, the Neutrosophic complete graph can provide a sophisticated and nuanced model for the intertwined humanity perceived in Ubuntu and the complex non-dualistic insights of the "logic of not," thereby mirroring the irreducible dependency found in Borromean rings. |
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| ISSN: | 2331-6055 2331-608X |