Would you say the boundaries are getting lower? With increasing specialization, it seems it gets harder to connect an ever greater number of disparate fields (with a couple of choice exceptions, as you note). Of course, in nature there is no boundary (eg., between chemistry and physics), but there are limits to what fits in a human brain.
I’m not saying anything about specialization. When a collision happens, new people start specializing in the collision region. For example, now there are quantum computer scientists, behavioral economists and cognitive scientists working in AI.
I’m not even saying that all fields have to collide. For example, a historian has nothing to do with quantum physicists because there is no boundary to dissolve, implicit or explicit. But the boundary between history and sociology is a different case. I’m not saying: “Yay! Everything is connected!”.
What I am saying is that there are (possibly important) connections that we’re missing because of our implicit views of reality. I was talking more about realizing that what you think are clean boundaries have to have deeper and more complex structure because of the nature of reality.
Would you say the boundaries are getting lower? With increasing specialization, it seems it gets harder to connect an ever greater number of disparate fields (with a couple of choice exceptions, as you note). Of course, in nature there is no boundary (eg., between chemistry and physics), but there are limits to what fits in a human brain.
I’m not saying anything about specialization. When a collision happens, new people start specializing in the collision region. For example, now there are quantum computer scientists, behavioral economists and cognitive scientists working in AI.
I’m not even saying that all fields have to collide. For example, a historian has nothing to do with quantum physicists because there is no boundary to dissolve, implicit or explicit. But the boundary between history and sociology is a different case. I’m not saying: “Yay! Everything is connected!”.
What I am saying is that there are (possibly important) connections that we’re missing because of our implicit views of reality. I was talking more about realizing that what you think are clean boundaries have to have deeper and more complex structure because of the nature of reality.