When I worked in Ottawa, the company had multiple green plants on each floor. One day I passed by a meeting room and noticed the plant outside the door was dying. I love plants and always have some at home, so I felt very sorry for it.
I found the gardener and asked him if I could take care of it. I took it back to my cube and not long afterwards, there were new leaves shot up and the plant came back to life and started to grow along the walls of my cube. The co-workers passing by said the plant must like the sound of my voice.
But one day, a new gardener took the plant away during the night. I couldn't say anything as it was the company's property. I went and searched everywhere and found it outside another meeting room on another floor. I kept checking every week, and saw it started dying again a few weeks later. I begged the new gardener to let me take care of it again. This process repeated one more time, until I found the manager of the office and showed him the dying plant. He listened and then put a sticker on the pot, and said it is yours now.
The plant happily lived in my cube for three more years until I left the company. I wanted to but couldn't take it with me, as the new company I was going to join was the competitor and I didn't want any issue.
I don't know what happened afterwards with the plant, but I know in my heart it was very much alive and happy when it was with me.
中医和西医
蒋闻铭
中医，至少有一半，是玄学。定性不定量，是阴阳五行说的应用。几千年的实践总结，治病救人，也不是全没有它的效果道理。中医诊病，望闻切脉，你病了，要么是寒气入体，体虚肾亏；要么是阳气重，肝火旺。体虚肾亏要保养，要补；肝火旺，要用清凉的药。接下来开药，本草纲目里有一堆，用什么不用什么，用哪一种用多少，没有定规，医生跟着感觉走。 病好了，药多多少少是有帮助的，但这病有多少是自己好的，有多少是药的功效，谁也说不清。久而久之，就成了治得好是病，治不好是命，治病一半是本事，一半靠运气，医生的队伍里，鱼龙混杂，就有了四方被他医死了三方的赛卢医，不少的江湖郎中。
现代医学，是科学，要定量，用数据说话。你生了病，到了医生哪儿，他不望也不闻，先让护士给你量体温血压，体温37度，正常，37度5，低烧，38度 5以上，高烧。 接下来给你开个单子，抽血化验，一大堆的指标数字。然后就是一堆仪器，透视成像。医生根据这些数据图像，判定你得了什么病，病有多重。用药，每一种对症的药，有没有效果，有没有副作用，都必须通过长期严格的临床试验，用精确到小数点的数据说话。
When I worked in Ottawa, the company had multiple green plants on each floor. One day I passed by a meeting room and noticed the plant outside the door was dying. I love plants and always have some at home, so I felt very sorry for it.
I found the gardener and asked him if I could take care of it. I took it back to my cube and not long afterwards, there were new leaves shot up and the plant came back to life and started to grow along the walls of my cube. The co-workers passing by said the plant must like the sound of my voice.
But one day, a new gardener took the plant away during the night. I couldn't say anything as it was the company's property. I went and searched everywhere and found it outside another meeting room on another floor. I kept checking every week, and saw it started dying again a few weeks later. I begged the new gardener to let me take care of it again. This process repeated one more time, until I found the manager of the office and showed him the dying plant. He listened and then put a sticker on the pot, and said it is yours now.
The plant happily lived in my cube for three more years until I left the company. I wanted to but couldn't take it with me, as the new company I was going to join was the competitor and I didn't want any issue.
I don't know what happened afterwards with the plant, but I know in my heart it was very much alive and happy when it was with me.
Too critical 的人，有时候是不幸的。
抽象模型，是系统科学中常用的科学方法。拿定性定量来定义科学，是思维狭隘的表现。复杂系统，在不能定性定量之前，最好的办法就是逼近，而抽象模型的优势是用简单的模型来逼近复杂模型，容易思考和解释问题。
反中医的人，都是对科学，对中医一知半解的人，包括早期的鲁迅。鲁迅理科水平太差，看问题只从一个角度看，只能从事文学创作。
中医这个词，而不是传统医学，先入为主就带入了文化意识，使得客观评价几乎不可能。