May 2026

Today, we’re looking deeper into the physical body to explore another one of TCM’s concepts through the lens of groundbreaking modern neuroscience. For centuries, students of Traditional Chinese Medicine have wrestled with the concept of the Wu Shen, or the “Five Spirits.” Classical texts like the Huangdi Neijing assert that consciousness is not confined to… Continue reading The Minds Within: Organ-Intrinsic Nervous Systems and the Five Shen

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In this post we will continue to bridge the classical frameworks of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CM) with the cutting-edge neuroscience of the Free Energy Principle (FEP) and Active Inference. For thousands of years, Chinese Medicine has utilized a highly sophisticated, systems-based language to describe human health and disease. Today, modern theoretical biology and cognitive neuroscience… Continue reading The Predictive Body: Chinese Medicine Through the Lens of Active Inference