Fuzziness: Came for the View, Stayed for the Same

The first time I came across Fuzzy Sets, my first point of contact with Soft Computing, I was a young and inexperienced student of Computer Science in my hometown University. I had just completed the first semester, and as an aside of an image processing curriculum a loud-spoken, very kinetic lecturer spent a couple of hours introducing us to the mysteries of the idea of degree and Fuzzy arithmetic. The whole thing had a sort of secret sect bent, something like the secret tools that the powers to be don’t want you to know and use—a probably unwitting attitude I have seen many times in the community and that has harmed more than helped, but that on an unexperienced and young student as myself undeniably had a major fascination.