中药学发展的复杂性科学探讨

在对中药西药化、西药中药化与中西药合用进行分析的基础上,提出了中医药复杂性科学的理念,并论述了其所具有的非线性、动态发展、整体大于部分之和、整体并不等于宏观等特点,认为中药学发展需要微观分析与西药来补充,但要以复杂性科学为指导,不断总结与发展出新的辨证施治(病理状态分析与处理)规律.     

生物学和生物医学科学中的复杂性

自牛顿时代以来,经典力学和还原论一直是科学研究的基石。然而,还原论和决定论无法分析和恰当地解释复杂系统特征性的突现性质。以认识论的观点看,还原论和整体论结合起来才能综合评估复杂生物系统。突现,非线性和自组织等复杂性理论的概念正改变和塑造着生物医学研究范式。还阐述了理解生物系统复杂性的重要价值。     

Metaphysical Infinitism and the Regress of Being

This article offers a limited defense of metaphysical “infinitism,” the view that there are, or might be, infinite chains of ontological dependence. According to a widespread presupposition, there must be an ultimate ground of being—most likely, a plurality of fundamental atoms. Contrary to this view, this article shows that metaphysical infinitism is internally coherent. In particular, a parallel with the debate concerning infinitism about epistemic justification is suggested, and an “emergence model” of being is put forward. According to the emergence model, the being of any given entity gradually arises out of an infinite series of progressively less dependent entities—it is not wholly transmitted, as it were, from a basic, ungrounded level to all the dependent ones in a step‐by‐step fashion. Some objections are considered and rebutted.     

Science,Religious Naturalism,and Biblical Theology: Ground for the Emergence of Sustainable Living

During this century, humans must learn to live in ways that are sustainable, both ecologically and morally. The global community already consumes more ecological resources than Earth can generate; population growth and increasing development are widening that gap. We suggest that paths to sustainability can be found by mindful reflection on meanings discerned in the convergence of a scientific understanding of nature, religious naturalism, and biblical understandings of creation. The patterns of ecological sustainability observed in natural systems and the wise ways of relating to the land discerned in the Hebrew Bible suggest that sustainability must be grounded in social and ecological justice and that just ways of living can emerge from a deep sense of the ways in which nature and all of humanity are interdependent. We conclude that the twentieth-century emphasis on individual control of our future must make room for the emergence of a new understanding of mutuality. There can be no flourishing apart from mutual flourishing.     

Confucian Order at the Edge of Chaos: The Science of Complexity and Ancient Wisdom

Many academics extol chaos theory and the science of complexity as significant scientific advances with application in such diverse fields as biology, anthropology, economics, and history. In this paper we focus our attention on structure-within-chaos and the dynamic self-organization of complex systems in the context of social philosophy. Although the modern formulation of the science of complexity has developed out of late-twentieth-century physics and computational mathematics, its roots may extend much deeper into classical thinking. We argue here that the essential ideas and predictions of the science of complexity are found within the social ordering principle of li (the rites) in Confucius's Analects .     

ICU的形成与发展

危重病医学从简单的监测与护理到当今发展成为较系统的危重病医学理论、一系列先进的监测手段和救治技术,经过了半个多世纪几代人的努力。ICU的建立和发展是现代医学进步的显著标志之一。危重病医学的贡献在于,在积极治疗原发病的基础上,通过先进的生命支持手段,使许多过去认为已无法救治的危重患者得以存活或延长其生存时间。从ICU的形成、危重病医学学科建设、我国ICU队伍的建设到现阶段ICU的发展过程作简要阐述,并着重指出今后ICU发展中面临的任务与挑战,如ICU收治标准、住院费用、病人安全性,旨在促进我国乃至世界范围内ICU可持续健康的发展。     

关于"复杂性研究"和"复杂性科学"

我赞成“复杂性研究”却不赞成“复杂性科学”。道理很简单 :“复杂性研究”是可能的 ,“复杂性科学”是不可能的。在系统科学中 ,如果我们把“复杂性”定义为“复杂系统的动力学特征” ,那么我们当然并且也应当设法对这种特征加以界定、描述、分析。例如 ,我手边有一本武汉大学哲学系赵凯荣的博士论文《复杂性 :人类认识之迷》。作者指出“复杂性是通过系统而且是复杂系统定义的。它是一个系统概念且是一个复杂系统概念 ,它具有结构 ,也具有层次” ,[1] 但尽管这样 ,作者仍然把复杂性划分为系统复杂性、非线性复杂性、自组织复杂性、内时空…     

Emergence, Probability, and Reductionism

Abstract. Philosopher‐theologian Bernard J. F. Lonergan defines emergence as the process in which “otherwise coincidental manifolds of lower conjugate acts invite the higher integration effected by higher conjugate forms” (Insight, [1957] 1992, 477). The meaning and implications of Lonergan's concept of emergence are considered in the context of the problem of reductionism in the natural sciences. Examples are taken primarily from physics, chemistry, and biology.     

个体心理治疗的复杂性

本文尝试从复杂适应系统理论的角度对个体心理治疗的复杂性加以阐述。依据复杂适应系统理论,心理紊乱并不必然是心理健康的敌人;在个体心理治疗的动力发展过程中,治疗师与来访者相互适应突现配对联盟,来访者的心理变化或新的心理结构的突现具有不可预测性;心理治疗的目标是使得僵化有序、封闭、适应不良的系统朝向日益复杂、开放、灵活适应的状态转化。复杂适应系统理论为探索人类的心理体验与发展提供了新的思路和方法。     

Emergence of Life

Discussions of the origin of life usually assume that there is a specific event, however improbable, by which dead matter became a living entity. Naturalistic accounts, although in seeming opposition to theistic explanations of the apparent design of even the simplest cells, often share the assumption that there is a specific line to be crossed. If the problem is recast as one of a process of emergence of biochemistry from protobiochemistry, which in turn emerged from the organic chemistry and geochemistry of primitive earth, the resources of the new sciences of complex systems dynamics can provide a more robust conceptual framework within which to explore the possible pathways of chemical complexification leading to life. In such a view the emergence of life is the result of deep natural laws (the outlines of which we are only beginning to perceive) and reflects a degree of holism in those systems that led to life. Further, there is the possibility of developing a more general theory of biology and of natural organization from such an approach. The emergence of life may thus be seen as an instance of the broader innate creativity of nature and consistent with a possible natural teleology.     

The Emergence and Irreducibility of Scientific Knowledge： A Multi-Synergic-Holism

The world possesses a hierarchical structure and evolves through emergence. Its levels are the result of emergence, and possess unique properties and functions which their components and emergent bases do not. Each of these levels also possesses basic laws or rules which cannot be logically deduced from other levels, and evince downward causation. Therefore, there are non-linear causal networks among the levels of complex systems in which causal reductionism does not hold. The hierarchical structure is formed in accordance with the increasing organized complexity of the objects, so that different levels give birth to different disciplines, and different disciplines have their own theoretical autonomy and independence. Therefore, theories across different levels are essentially irreducible, and any apparent case of reduction may only be so in the sense of a partial reduction. Emergence-evolution-hierarchy ontology and multi-synergic holism is compatible with reductionism even as it transcends it.     

复杂性视野下的内环境和内环境稳态

研究和总结了复杂系统的基本特征,从复杂性的角度讨论了内环境作为动态非线性系统存在具有的诸种性质和正反馈在维持、调节内环境稳定中的作用,指出现阶段需要重新认识内环境和内环境稳态的生理学机制。     

复杂性视野下的内环境和内环境稳态

研究和总结了复杂系统的基本特征,从复杂性的角度讨论了内环境作为动态非线性系统存在具有的诸种性质和正反馈在维持、调节内环境稳定中的作用,指出现阶段需要重新认识内环境和内环境稳态的生理学机制.     

Emergence,Story, and the Challenge of Positive Scenarios

This article is divided into three parts. The first part describes the paradox of positive scenarios: they are much harder to write than negative scenarios. The second part describes the logic of emergent systems whose properties are neither reducible to nor predictable from the properties of their component parts. The third part shows how the concept of emergence can be used to lend plausibility to those optimistic scenarios that might otherwise be rejected as mere wishful thinking.     

Mysteries of the Psychoanalytic Process: Reflections on Chaos,Complexity, and Emergence

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalysis is inherently messy and mysterious. The mysteries of the psychoanalytic process are viewed through the lens of chaos and complexity theory....     

"取象比类"认识本质的复杂科学思考

在对"取象比类"认识所引起的困惑及其本质等进行复杂科学分析的基础上,认为其实质是对多因素作用下的疾病整体变化--不同病理状态及其演变、防治规律的认识与把握.它不同于现代医学的针对具体病因或组织器官的认识与把握防治.其优势与不足,只有在复杂科学的前提下才能有一个更准确、客观、清楚的认识.     

Emergence of a Social Inquiry Group: A Story of Fractals and Networks

This article relates the emergence of a group of faculty researchers utilizing complexity science approaches. The narrative emerges from three projects combining research into complexity, communities, and technologies. Details of how the research was initiated, and the nature and quality of the conversational method, are provided. In addition, theoretical concepts that were consciously applied and others that arose through insights from the data as it was collected are discussed. Although this is like most real narratives, a never-ending story, it concludes with a presentation of some of the ideas that separate complexity-informed research from other paradigms.     

由血液循环理论的发现和发展看医学观更替的过程及其机制

以血液循环理论的发现和发展为例，分析了医学观在医学发展中的作用，提出了医学观更替的三个阶段，即原有医学观失稳且陷入危机、新观念的放大及其局部变革、整合并全面更替，揭示了医学观更替的一般过程及其机制。     

从复杂性科学的角度分析干燥综合征分类标准优化发展

复杂性科学是一个将哲学理念与现代化技术体系相结合的新兴学科,作为前沿科学已广泛应用于自然科学及社会科学多领域,但鲜有在风湿免疫病领域的应用研究.干燥综合征是医学界最为困惑的复杂病种之一,本文试从复杂性科学的自组织与他组织机制、涌现性、适应性与动态有序性的角度出发,分析干燥综合征的发病机制及若干分类标准,探索了复杂性科学思维在临床诊断中的应用价值.