How to Diagnose the State of a Dynamic System
When analyzing a system,it is not only the easily quantified parameters (like where an item,e.g.the location of a planet in the planetary system or the weight,the temperature,and the blood pressure of a patient),but also the instantaneous changes of these parameters (e.g.the speed which is,of course,the magnitude of the instantaneous change of the location or even the acceleration which is the magnitude of the instantaneous change of the speed) that are crucial for determining its future development.While Newton observed 300 years ago that just knowing the mass,the location,and the speed of two celestial bodies in a 2-body system at some given moment suffices to predict its future,these simple and absolutely basic ideas seem not yet to have found full recognition in medical analysis and diagnostics.However,investigations by Johannes Greten seem to suggest that the situation (for Westerners sometimes weird looking vocabularies and concepts in traditional Chinese medicine) seems to be heading for exactly this.Thus,as a perfectly ignorant mathematician,I would like to discuss this aspect of clinical dynamics that clearly needs to be taken care of in any attempt of developing (Western or Eastern) clinical ontology,using sort of Newtons conceptual set-up to harmonies Aristotelean and Heraklitian thinking.
Andreas Dress
CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology,Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences (CAS),Shanghai 200040,P.R.China
国际会议
The 3rd Workshop on Scientific Approaches to Chinese Medicine(第三届中医科学研究方法研讨会)
安徽黄山
英文
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2008-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）