I know I am a living system because I am an organized living thing that depends on my environment. I am dependent on information, energy, and matter given to me by nature, my surroundings, my environment. I like the article we read in class, "Autopoietic Organization"--the comment of how when we speak of living things, we "presuppose something in common between them; otherwise we wouldn't put them in the same class we designate with the name living.". I know I am a living system by my interactions and confirmation with other and similar living beings. By western definition and a biological definition, I am living because I am composed by a network of cells and molecular life, and I have a heartbeat.
Biophysics and eastern medicine are related. Biophysics is composed of different fields of biology, physics, physiology, computer science; each academic institution makes its own rules and may place emphasis on a particular field. This is similar to Eastern medicine. Like biophysics, different acupuncture schools may place emphasis on certain historians or philosophers. Some people think Chinese herbs are more important than acupuncture. Some practitioners may emphasize bodywork instead of diet. There are so many doctrines which are based on yin and yang concepts, just like the way biophysics is based on biology and physics. This shows that Western concepts are not as easily defined as we like to generalize.
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