Lee Yang, Shaw Robert E, Jin Zheng
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, MansfieldCT, USA.
Institute of Educational Sciences, Zhengzhou Normal UniversityZhengzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 11;8:556. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00556. eCollection 2017.
Ancient Eastern thought posited the ontological integration of the "mind-body world". The body-mind syncretism was a foundational precept in Eastern philosophy in which "Gih" ("Qi") was considered the basic entity of the universe and the human being. This study attempts to build a meta-theory and to demonstrate empirical designs for Gih, discussing the problems of the mind and body, or the subject and object, compared with the concept of "affordance" proposed by ecological approaches. The notion of Gih extends beyond that of affordance in that Gih activates a psychosomatic process between the physical condition and the mental state that facilitates the bi-directional interactions between subject and object. Therefore, the concept of Gih integrates mind and body, providing a means of comparing Eastern and Western philosophical systems.
古代东方思想假定了“身心世界”的本体论整合。身心合一论是东方哲学的一个基本信条，其中“气”被视为宇宙和人类的基本实体。本研究试图构建一个关于气的元理论，并展示其实证设计，与生态方法提出的“可供性”概念相比较，讨论身心问题或主客问题。气的概念超越了可供性的概念，因为气激活了身体状况与精神状态之间的身心过程，促进了主体与客体之间的双向互动。因此，气的概念整合了身心，提供了一种比较东西方哲学体系的方法。
