Neminem

Osaka, 2018

Before attempting to solve a problem, you need to first formulate or define it. You will start to formulate the problem by defining the cognitive gap between what is and what is desirable and delineating the resources for closing it. Problem formulation is like an alternative route that will bring you to the point where it’s already more than half of the way towards the eventual elimination of the problem itself. Your analytical method of the problem formulation is used to obtain an equation that symbolises the problem and to give sense to the use of the social interactions comprising the same. The equation summarises all variables partaking, including their identities.

Yet, in some cases, instead of having yourself presented by one of the variables, you tend to be left questioning more than you did in the beginning of the formulation. And, like a bolt from the blue, you suddenly realise that you are nowhere in the equation. No. Not even one of the parentheses placed to declare the precedence rules to fix the ambiguities.