Question for Unschuld - Robodoc

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>>Wainwright,

 

Thank you for " driving home " my points with even better points of

your own. Your concluding comments that Chinese medicine must create

its own paradigm of self-study is precisely on the mark regarding its

development. CM investigators must establish their own criteria of

self-study and clinical development apart from and undistracted by

Western science's self-development. The two paradigms may develop at

their own rate on parallel tracks. CM has it's own historical

momentum and methods of development. It is up to the " experts " in CM

to define the methodologies of development and not be distracted nor

invaded by the " cultural substrate " outside their door. A true

artist works within themselves to render into their medium in their

own style and undistracted by the cultural forces in their midst. If

they are distracted by the forces in their midst, then their

meditation has been broken and they are merely a technician and tool

of their times. They have lost their art.

 

Emmanuel Segmen>>

 

Well put.

 

It's important to distinguish technique from creativity. Technique is

required, but is only the means with which an artistic creation is

accomplished.

 

With biomedicine, one senses that the perfection of techique is not

the means to an ideal, it is the ideal. An algorithm, basically. A

figurative representation of this would be a computerized system that

diagnosed patients and came up with optimal treatment. Robodoc,you

might call it.

 

This isn't what CM is about. Optimal treatment in CM involves

methods, but also Yi, which is meditative, and represents a metalevel

leap beyond the algorithmic.

 

Personally,I'd prefer to be treated by Sun Si-Mo than Robodoc.

 

Wainwright