Leaps of Consciousness

Specialisation reduces the ability to see the big picture and use common sense.

By its very nature, it separates and divides things into ever smaller pieces. ‘Education is about knowing more and more about less and less’.

Whilst science has made extraordinary discoveries by dividing ‘things’ into ever-smaller parts, what is the cost to nature and humanity? The dominance of the male analytical, sequential, and exclusive left brain has led to a disastrous loss of access to the female, big-picture, both/and inclusive, and intuitive right-brain view.

A specialist knows a lot about their field, but context and a broader comprehension come from joining the dots, not having a tremendous depth of knowledge about one dot. Inevitably, a narrow view leads to thinking their dot is all that matters.

Imagine a forest of trees that are dots when viewed from above. The specialist can see only their dot and not the forest at all, so how can they join the dots if they are ignorant of their very existence?

Could a hidden purpose of specialisation be to make it hard to join the dots and realise the interconnectedness of all things?

If you were deceived by someone more intelligent than you how would you ever know?