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Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:13:34 UTC No. 16080607
How do Chinese (and to a lesser extent Japanese, Korean, and Asian-American) scientists reconcile their traditional beliefs with the scientific method?
European and North American scientists readily discarded concepts like the bloodletting and the four humors once they no longer became supported by scientific discoveries. But a majority of Chinese still use TCM and believe in concepts like qi.
Dear GOD/GODS and/or anyone else who can HELP ME (e.g. TIME TRAVELERS or MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS): The next time I wake up, please change my physical form to that of FINN MCMILLAN formerly of SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON at 8 YEARS OLD and keep it that way FOREVER. I am so sick of this chubby Asian man body! Thank you! - CHAUL JHIN KIM (a.k.a. A DESPERATE SOUL)
Is it cognitive dissonance? Do Chinese scientists have an "on/off" switch when they enter the lab? Or do they disbelieve their own results and simply use science as a way to get ahead in life?
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:14:39 UTC No. 16080609
>religion vs science thread
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:24:06 UTC No. 16080620
>>16080609
It's not necessarily religion. The philosophical foundations of modern science derive from Western philosophical thought. Francis Bacon is credited with formalizing the scientific method which was itself derived it from Aristotelian notions of cause and effect. Eastern science follows similar/same methodological processes as Western science but it is performed by individuals who still hold onto ideas completely contrary to the scientific method like TCM and Ayurveda.
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:26:13 UTC No. 16080621
>>16080607
The enlightement probably happened when confucius got translated into latin, and people realized there were alternatives to book knowledge.
Bloodletting works, it got discarded for no reason.
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:29:06 UTC No. 16080622
>>16080621
>The enlightement probably happened when confucius got translated into latin
Holy shit this is some of the biggest chinkoid cope I've ever seen.
๐๏ธ Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:30:42 UTC No. 16080624
>>16080607
The enlightement probably happened when confucius got translated into latin, and people realized there were alternatives to book knowledge.
Bloodletting works, it got discarded for no reason. In fact, western medicine was more like the others (Lincoln still took blue mass) until the Rockefellerian madness took over around the turn of the 20 century.
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:31:44 UTC No. 16080627
>>16080622
I'm not a chink.
In fact, western medicine was more like the others (Lincoln still took blue mass) until the Rockefellerian madness took over around the turn of the 20th century.
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:03:52 UTC No. 16080758
>>16080607
Religion is a silly superstition in all its forms. Serious adults dont believe in it in any form. Its silly nonsense like astrology. Most clerics also dont believe in god, they are just too invested into organized religion to openly poo in it.
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:46:45 UTC No. 16080969
>>16080607
I don't know about China, but in Japan they just incorporate every useful belief system into their worldview. Science is just one belief system, in particular a belief into the power of reason and what not.
For example, they still practice both Buddhism, Christianity, and Shinto (their original polytheistic/animist religion.) The same people will visit Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and Christian churches depending on the occasion.
They regularly use both chopsticks and western cutlery, depending on each dish's origins. Most rooms include both a low table, for sitting on the floor, as well as a high table or a desk to use with chairs. Their language includes both Latin characters (A), their original characters (ใ, ใข) as well as Chinese ones (ๆผข) all in use in a single sentence. And so on.
In the same way, doctors will prescribe you Western-style antibiotics at the same time as TCM herbs and powders. After seeing you, they give you a prescription for both; the same pharmacy sells you both; and you're supposed to take both together. They don't see a contradiction, they see the merit in each system and incorporate them all into their own culture.
t. Lived in Japan for a year