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. 2015 Jan 12;5:1424. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01424

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Copyright © 2015 Kimmel, Irran and Luger.

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Conceptual inferences within the perception-action loop. The initially diagnosed state of the client's system shows a global imbalance of Ki. The practitioner singles out for treatment the three most disproportional aspects in the Gallbladder (GB), Bladder (BL), and Spleen (SP) circuits. The top panel encapsulates the idea that the diagnostic process runs via “hidden layers” at which conceptual mappings supervene in the practitioner's mind from diagnosis, via interpretation and strategy building to selecting operative tools. The center panel specifies the various informational sources brought to bear in the diagnostic phase, a mapping from many percepts to three focalizing concepts. The bottom panel goes into the details of the concept-to-concept mapping that is used to connect and further compress the global diagnostic gestalt from the twelve Functional circuits to the processual model of the Five Phases.