United College Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Series

Professor Chien discussed the influences of biomedical engineering on humanity-society. For examples, creation of art and music requires the coordination of physiological functions and physical instruments, and their appreciation requires physiological cognitive functions. The feedback control of physiological functions has analogous features as economic supply-demand. The behaviours of normal vs. abnormal cells in an individual can be compared with those of good citizens vs deranged persons in a society. Understanding of the interplays between biology-medicine-engineering and humanity-society can shed new lights on the meanings of life and truth.