Chapter 4: Application II — A Cognitive Breakthrough in the Scientific Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Medical knowledge does not have just one paradigm. The first is 'objective description of external objects,' and the second is 'response mapping of system states.' Modern medicine excels at the first paradigm, but in the era of complex diseases, the absence of the second paradigm has created a systemic blind spot. TCM deserves to be re-understood as a response mapping language.