On the topic of Chinese medicine, most post-9s people are firmly opposed. No matter what they say about the positive articles of TCM, they will not choose to believe them.
This is because in Zhihu, the standard answers about TCM are "unscientific" and "superstitious". Is this a reference answer? The school told us. Any questions? Yes, in the process of growing up, we know too much about how to answer questions and how to choose the right one according to the standard answer. Mark the incorrect one as "Rightist". Students only need to recite and memorize according to the standard answers, see the praise against Chinese medicine, and see what is related to "advocating" Chinese medicine, and discredit it. This is their mentality.
There can be many specific labels, but they are all forms, and the fundamental reason behind them lies in the psychological mechanism of seeking "reference answers".
For specific labels, such as "One Tao", "Superstition", "Unscientific", "Advocacy", "Generalization by one side", "I'll be glad to see this", "Admiring foreign things", "Metaphysics" and "IQ tax", etc.
Let's analyze the deep-seated reasons.
First, cramming education's thinking has created a batch of sprays without independent thinking ability.
Don't think that the young people of this generation have received a lot of scientific education and enlightenment, so they think that the truth is in their hands. There are too many things that science cannot explain and there are too many things that have no "standard answers". This requires us to develop the habit of doubt and acquire the ability of independent thinking. However, it is a pity that this generation of young people do not have the ability to think independently. When they encounter things that they can't accept or understand (they can only accept a set of scientific categories), they mostly completely deny them and kill them directly, leaving no room. This has also laid a big fork for the continuous growth of my mental model and the continuous broadening of my vision!
The reason is the strategic mistake of national education. The direct reason is that the level of Chinese medicine in the market is really poor and embarrassing. Chinese medicine swindlers run everywhere. Therefore, it is definitely an academic problem for Chinese medicine practitioners to be called garbage liars! This pot must be carried by Chinese medicine practitioners themselves! However, it is different to prove the ignorance of the ancients with the garbage of modern Chinese medicine, and the garbage of ancient classic Chinese medicine. I don't agree.
Modern post-9s professors' education is just a low-end education that lacks speculation. It is characterized by no speculation, lack of independent thinking ability and broadening horizons. China's educational model is exam-oriented, with special emphasis on memory and repetition. This is the essence that the thinking of post-9s-1th post-modern young people has gradually formed and solidified, which will only get worse in the future. This educational model lacks creative and critical thinking. If the young people just repeat the description, the so-called scientism, and repeat the knowledge instilled in us by textbooks from childhood to adulthood, then we will become the mouthpiece of scientism. Most of the sprayers and TCM blackouts in Zhihu are these people, echoing the crowd, waiting for scientism to feed themselves, but they don't have independent thinking ability, and because they don't have independent thinking ability, these people are easily "charged IQ tax". If it is solidified and ossified from generation to generation, the inspiring and encouraging thinking and creative soil will disappear from China, and everyone can only plagiarize blindly in the end (look at the current institutions of higher learning! ), passively accept the ideology instilled by superiors and authorities. In Zhihu, our superior and authority is Zhihu's "standard answer" and "political correctness"-black Chinese medicine. What the black doctors of traditional Chinese medicine are doing now is nothing more than repeating the set of logic and theory instilled by the authorities (western medicine and scientism), without the part of their own independent thinking. Retelling is the face of scientism, and exploring truth and speculation is more in line with the scientific spirit.
Second, the black thinking mode of TCM is immature, and the narrow field of vision is high.
A person's thinking habit determines how to learn, which we sometimes ignore. When we strongly pursue and advocate something, our other side will strongly deny the other side, which is called binary opposition academically, but the emergence of this opposition does not come from the question we agree or disagree with. He is a Chinese doctor, but he doesn't understand western medicine. He is a western doctor, but he has never read a book of Chinese medicine, even a popular science article, and began to draw conclusions about things he doesn't know at all. Why is this? From the perspective of cognitive science, the problem actually lies not in the object of the external world and the object of argument, but in themselves. Their mental mode and thinking mode formed from childhood are rigid, so when Chinese medicine and western medicine appear, they will force themselves to choose one side according to their existing cognitive level. Will you still argue about "aerobic exercise or strong training?" Are you a vegetarian or a meat eater? Is it abstinence or indulgence? Genetically modified food or organic food? " We can see that this single mode of thinking shows that our understanding of the world is not comprehensive enough. This part requires us to keep learning and break the existing boundaries (interdisciplinary). The more disciplines you cross, the less boundaries you have. When you learn a new subject, you will learn more easily. Learning any knowledge depends on the level of mental development of learners, people with unstable hearts, incomplete understanding and superficial thoughts.
from birth to adulthood, whether it is the education of parents or schools, or the intentional or unintentional input of media, newspapers, internet and educational information, we are actually downloading programs for us. When we download them to a certain time, we will think that this is the way the world should be, and we will think that this is the way it should be, and that is the way it should develop, especially for those who are born with full air and good physique, especially when they do so. This is a good thing, because in life, we must first establish this self, and after we have a foothold, it is possible to further understand the world. But this process will also form a solidification, which will let us look at the world along a fixed and established cognitive way and thinking mode.
But the reality of the world is often not so simple. As the post-9s generation's physique becomes weaker and their horizons and experiences gradually increase, they will not find that there are many uncontrollable factors and incredible things happen in this world. The older you get, the more you will realize the limitations of your previous cognitive style and thinking mode.
definition:
scientism: (scientism), the belief that natural science is a model of human knowledge, and that the scientific method described by scientists is the only means to acquire that kind of knowledge that can be applied to any reality.
Famous sayings related to scientific spirit:
1. If we admit failure too readily, we may not realize that we are very close to being right. (karl popper) (UK)
2. The same is true of "difficulty". Facing the cliffs, you can't see a crack for a hundred years, but with an axe, you can advance inch by inch, and you have to advance inch by inch, and you will continue to accumulate. Leaps will come and breakthroughs will follow. -Hua Luogeng (China)
3. I really want to invent a machine with such terrible mass destructive power that war will become impossible forever. -Nobel (Sweden)
4. Only by obeying nature can we control nature. -bacon (England)
5. the sea of truth, let all the undiscovered things lie before my eyes and let me explore. -Newton (UK)
To sum up,
The essence of scientific spirit lies in the spirit of exploration and the spirit of doubt about the level that science cannot explain.
It's simple to label it "unscientific", but it's difficult to explore the unknown.
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