Acupuncture Neuroscience

Active Inference (1)·Acupuncture Neuroscience (1)·Bayesian Brain (1)·de qi (1)·Neurophilosophy (1)·Predictive Processing (1)·Qi Zhi (1)

The integration of modern cognitive science with classical East Asian medicine has reached a fascinating threshold. A recent paper published in MDPI’s Brain Sciences presents a pioneer attempt to frame the therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture through the lenses of Predictive Processing (PP) and Active Inference under Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (FEP) [1]. At the… Continue reading Active Inference, De Qi, and the Neurobiology of Acupuncture: A Critical Response