Extenics and Extenics – Based Research

The real meaning of Extenics is to transform various problems seemingly contradictory or insoluble to solvable problems according to the extension methods.

The exceptional feature of Extenics is to hypothesize and systematic these extension methods with the goal of the computerization of solving contradictory issues.

Though the history of Extenics research has only thirty years, it demonstrates the bright prospect.

People are handling various contradictory issues in social practice. However, Mathematics, researching mainly on quantitative relations and space forms, cannot be applied to solving plenty of contradictory issues.

Therefore, researchers of Extenics have abstracted ordered triple (object, characteristics and magnitude) naming element describing substances in the world and relations among them. Take element as logic cell to build formalized method---Extension model which shows the contradictory issues and procedures to solve them. Information can be presented by element or arithmetic expression. Knowledge is the arithmetic expression of element in essence. The strategy of solving contradictory issues is extension expression. In order to enable computers to solve contradictory issues, researchers of Extenics build a system of extension information-knowledge-strategy on the basis of extension model.

In fact, lots of significant scientific conclusions in history, cognition gained by predecessors on the basis of scientific and technological development level at that moment, belong to relatively truth which indicated that nothing was eternally immutable since ancient times. With the advancement of science and technology, people may generate more profound cognition on some of the former scientific conclusions. Therefore, instead of accepting the scientific conclusions gained by predecessors blindly, it is necessary to inherit and develop them critically. Researchers of Extenics, adopting the attitude of critical inheritance to Mathematics, System Theory and Logic Theory and sticking to the spirit of scientific analysis, establish the Extenics.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. The Intellectual Revolution, by means of researching wisdom generation rule, is a plan to form rules and establish operable methods which enables people to propose new ideas on products and new solutions on contradictory issues; as well as a plan to “teach” this method to computer and network and enables them to help people form creative ideas which makes wisdom and intelligence no longer the patent of smart people. Intellectual Revolution has important significance on all walks of life including economics, politics and military. The development of computer and network provides material tools for the Intellectual Revolution. Extenics is expected to propose theoretical basis and operational approaches to start this Intellectual Revolution, the process of which will be closely bound up with the development of human society.

As a result, applying Extension Theory and innovation methods into the computer and network-intelligentizing has become the current frontier research which includes 1) researching and developing computers that can handle contradictory issues 2) researching network-intelligentizing technology and developing intelligent network that can handle contradictory issues by means of Extenics Theory and innovation methods and 3) researching and developing universal build platform of extension strategy and applying build software of extension strategy to specialized field.