The Unifying Vision of the Universe

In the world we have lived in for a century, there was this sort of fundamental idea that rigorous knowledge should be divided up and specialized. But what got lost in this world was the idea that at some point you have to put all the pieces back together again. This is conciliants. What do you owe Wilson called? Consiliants. The fundamental unity of knowledge. And that got lost. So we don't teach it. If you think of Australia 500 years ago, if you were an Australian 500 years ago and you were being educated, you'd be educated by elders who would have worked really hard to preserve the best knowledge. That's their best shot at understanding how the world