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THE SECOND PLENUM OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(PREPARATORY)
CONVENES IN SHANGHAI
Author
:
Qin Yue
The Second Plenum of
the Committee of the Research Association of
Chinese Physiological Sciences convened in Shanghai on November
9,
1981.
Twenty six committee members
from twenty four provinces,
cities,
and
autonomous areas attend the plenum.
The committee passed three documents:
" (Draft)
Regulations
of the Research Association of Chinese Physiological
Sciences,"
"Essential Notes
of the Committee,"
and
"A Report Concerning a
Recommendation That an Organization of National
Science Committees Undertake
Experimental Verification of Physiologically Unique Skills."
Looking back at
the work done over the last half year,
the committee
acknowledged that,
under the leadership and concern of party committees at
each level,
and with the support
of
the science committees and associations of
each area,
and due to the efforts of science and technology workers,
the work
situation of
the Research Association of Physiological Sciences
is excellent;
and the preparatory plans
for local research associations
at every level have
made progress.
The committee decided to convene,
at an appropriate time
in
1982,
at a specialized scholarship symposium to discuss physics,
biology,
inner strength
[trans.
note:
"qigong,"
a branch of traditional Chinese
medicine]
and their relationship
to unique skills,
how they tie
into unique
skills,
and other aspects.
Committee delegates proceeded to analyze the question of society's
denial
of the true nature
of physiologically unique skills.
The delegates
recognized that
it
is
a good thing and not
a bad thing to use explanations
from different branches
of learning to debate
a new science because only by
repeated,
rigorous,
learned debate together with strict experimental
verification can we rid ourselves
of falsehood and find truth,
distinguish
between right and wrong,
and cause research work
to progress healthily in the
correct direction.
However,
the plenum and each individual delegate recognize
that they are unable
to accept
the view that these skills are
"unscientific,
a view based on the
fact
that the phenomenon of physiologically unique skills
is difficult
to explain using present scientific theories.
Nor can they
accept the lumping of physiologically unique skills together with feudal
superstitions and the
"soul only theory"
of the philosophic idealists.
The
committee sees this attitude as incompatible with objective real conditions
and especially harmful to the future progress
of China’s scientific
undertakings
.
The committee pointed out that,
since the March 1979 discovery of the
phenomenon of
"reading words with the ears,"
the whole country has continued
to discover many children with this kind of ability.
Moreover a good many
science and technology workers have proceeded with a large number of
experimental
investigations the results
of which show that physiologically
unique skills objectively exist.
The phenomenon of physiologically unique
skills cannot even today be fully explained by conventional
scientific
theories.
This clearly shows
the scientific need for and importance
of
proceeding with this research work.
Using scientific methods
to research this
phenomenon and striving to explain
it directly opposes feudal superstition and
also thoroughly destroys
the fundamental methods
of superstition.
At
the
moment,
the debate centers on whether
"reading words with the ears,
this kind
of physiologically unique skill,
really exists or not.
The best way to
resolve this debate
is through scientific experiments.
Therefore,
the
committee proposed that,
under
the leadership of the national science
committees,
formal experimental proofs
of the real nature of
"reading words
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