Yes. This is very good stuff. Interdisciplinary knowledge is becoming more important as the man made world gets more complex.
My fear is that some people just aren't wired for it. I personally get a healthy dopamine jolt when I cross connect ideas. I suspect I'm in the minority though. It seems depressingly unrelated to education level as well. I work with people that currently have many more years of schooling than me, but are intellectually stagnant and don't care. I know a post doc in astrophysics that believes in reiki and essential oils. She has a nar... (read more)
While it is sometimes useful to say something like genetic variation explains 50% of the variance in trait X, this may often be misleading because of how genes interact with the environment and with each other.
A trait may be immutable at age ten or twenty which was very much undetermined at age two.
Yes. This is very good stuff. Interdisciplinary knowledge is becoming more important as the man made world gets more complex.
My fear is that some people just aren't wired for it. I personally get a healthy dopamine jolt when I cross connect ideas. I suspect I'm in the minority though. It seems depressingly unrelated to education level as well. I work with people that currently have many more years of schooling than me, but are intellectually stagnant and don't care. I know a post doc in astrophysics that believes in reiki and essential oils. She has a nar... (read more)