Professor Qian Xuesen believes that “the gray system is very meaningful and worth noting, and there will be greater development in the future.” (See "Ten Years of Gray Systems Achievements" 1982-1992, the Seventh National Gray System Academic Symposium Exhibition) Professor Qian Xuesen also pointed out that "Gray Science is an emerging discipline. In the United States, there are Forrester, Denais Meadows, and Peter from MIT. Senge, as well as Santa Fe Institute, etc. So it is a promising theory. I wish you and your colleagues can continue to make more contributions to the construction of socialism in our country." (See Qian Xuesen's letter on August 22, 1998. Letter from Sun Wanpeng)
It can be considered that gray science is developed on the basis of the very meaningful "grey system theory" and is an emerging discipline with great development potential. It can be said that "although it is latent, it is still exposed", "the wind and rain are cool for several days, and the chrysanthemums bloom freshly". As for whether it can become the “third science”, it can still be studied, discussed and considered. It should be said that when Bacon (known as one of the world's top ten thinkers) proposed that "knowledge is power", "either herbs are weeds," "either virtues are evil intentions," and "either good people or bad people." , there is no room for the third kind of science.
After I published the book "The Third Science" in 1998, a group of scientists voted in favor, some voted against, and others abstained. Mr. Lu Fang and Hainan Publishing House translated and published the book "The Third Culture" by [American] John Brockman in April 2003. In the introduction: "The Emerging Third Culture", he said, " The achievements of the third culture are not marginal arguments against the controversial mainstream conservative class. These achievements will affect the lives of all people on the planet." "The emergence of the third culture has introduced a new model of cultural discussion and redefined A distinguished figure in important fields of American thought."
Stephen Jay Gould, a famous professor at Harvard University, emphasized: "The third culture is a powerful concept." Steve Jones, a professor at the University of London and an active proponent of the third culture, says, “The best way to evaluate the idea of ??a third culture is to ask: has there ever been more than one culture in the past? Culture? That’s the core question.” The answer is obviously yes. W. Daniel Hillis, chief scientist of Thinking Machine Company, who holds 34 U.S. patents, pointed out very profoundly: “The representatives of the emerging third culture of scientists are not typical scientists, but those who People who are involved in a wider range of fields to some extent find that the problems they are studying do not fit into the subject structure of their major." In fact, he himself was like this. He "hoped not to play old songs and listen to newly remade willow branches." He actually "hybridized" computer programs with biological evolution, and as a result, he gave birth to a large number of patents, just like having children.
In the book "The Third Culture", famous scholars who introduced the third culture of "riding brilliantly horizontally and riding spiritually vertically" include: Professor George Williams of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Oxford; Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins of the University; Professor Brian Goodwin of the Open University outside London; Lynn Margulis of the prestigious University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor; Professor Roger Singlet, an important American pioneer of thought on how knowledge is expressed in the human brain; Professor Daniel Dennett, known as the best philosopher today and director of the Cognition Center at Tufts University; talented and powerful Nicholas Humphrey, a senior researcher at Darwin College of the University of Cambridge; Steven Pinker, a distinguished professor of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; known as the most engaged in relativity research besides Einstein. Professor Roger Penrose, an important physicist and mathematical physicist at the University of Oxford; Professor Martin Rees of the Royal Research Society of King's College, Cambridge; Professor Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lee Siying of Pennsylvania State University Professor Lin; Paul Davis, professor of natural philosophy at the University of Adelaide; Ray Gale, winner of the "Global 500" honorary title and the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics, and a member of the US President's Science and Technology Think Tank Professor Mann Emeritus; Professor Stuart Kaufman of the Santa Fe Institute in the United States; Christopher Langton, a core leader of the artificial life organization members of the Santa Fe Institute, and an adjunct professor at the Institute, founder of a prediction investment company N. Farmer et al.
What is shocking is that the ideas advocated by the above-mentioned "third culture" scientists are highly consistent with the Gray School ideas.
Having said that, let me first explain a comrade’s question: why should I label my theory with the word “grey”? The editor's note of "Guangming Daily" is concise, easy to understand and explains the profound things in a simple way. "According to international practice, in cybernetics, the amount of information is often expressed by the depth of color. The information that is sufficient and certain (known) is white, the information is lacking and uncertain (unknown) is black, and the information is partially certain and partially uncertain. Gray.” (See the front page of Guangming Daily on December 22, 1997)
So, what is the nature of gray science? Editor's note: Gray science, founded in the early 1990s, is an emerging discipline covering social sciences and natural sciences. It uses the idea of ??dialectical materialism and uses gray mathematical theory as a weapon to deeply reveal the inner movement laws of things in social and natural phenomena that are partly recognized by humans and partly not yet recognized by humans. This is a science that guides people to view and deal with various issues in social life comprehensively and accurately (ibid.). I believe that "knowledge is the way". Instead of possessing the gold of Shandong University, it is better to learn the knowledge of Douzhou University, because the priceless treasure that cannot be destroyed is knowledge.