It appears that you are exploring the idea that society's increasing specialization and diversity may lead to a "Babel phase," where people have difficulty communicating and understanding each other across different disciplines and interests. You mention that this may be due to factors such as self-importance and fear of exposure, which can lead to a lack of openness and a blockage of information flow. You suggest that this may make it difficult for society to address complex problems that require cross-disciplinary solutions. Overall, it seems that you are suggesting that society's increasing specialization may lead to a disconnect between the information that is produced and the ability of the average person to consume and understand it.
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How diverse society can be before a babel phase appears? I think there is an upper limit of the average population education both in specialization and diversity after that people's interest is too uncorrelated for them to communicate across disciplines, making it rather impossible for society to produce new solutions to address a problem of abstract complexity.
In other words, to me, it seems like the next generations will eventually speak a very different language to each other. Social media has established certain slang among different lobbies. Habits and hobbies of a certain lobby or a label are becoming tradition or a must, a religious to feel fitting and able to participate (Drag races and gay communities an extreme case f.e.),
However this holds in science as well, the overspecialization makes it harder and harder to cross disciplines even among your degree. (A physicist will not be able to make a cool discussion with an optician if he knows fluid mechanics). This seems to be for a two-fold social matter. A) Self-importance, then there is no time to hear and invest in new information. B) Fear of exposure, degrees "validate" that we know something. However, we do not. We know some, however, it certainly unnerving if it is enough.
How diverse society can be before a babel phase appears? I think there is an upper limit of the average population education both in specialization and diversity after that people's interest is too uncorrelated for them to communicate across disciplines, making it rather impossible for society to produce new solutions to address a problem of abstract complexity.
In other words, to me, it seems like the next generations will eventually speak a very different language to each other. Social media has established certain slang among different lobbies. Habits and hobbies of a certain lobby or a label are becoming tradition or a must, a religious to feel fitting and able to participate (Drag races and gay communities an extreme case f.e.),
However this holds in science as well, the overspecialization makes it harder and harder to cross disciplines even among your degree. (A physicist will not be able to make a cool discussion with an optician if he knows fluid mechanics). This seems to be for a two-fold social matter. A) Self-importance, then there is no time to hear and invest in new information. B) Fear of exposure, degrees "validate" that we know something. However, we do not. We know some, however, it certainly unnerving if it is enough.
Competitive environments make it hard to admit we do not know, something it may be expected we know. Thus we pretend we are open-minded when we try to stay close, so it doesn't show up our lack of knowledge. This becomes so frequent, like a potential that blocks information flow and information with added value to be produced.
So what I mean, as a society we produce too much information that the average person can not consume. Our society demands specialization, while our problems are of cross disciplines.
So what I mean, as a society we produce too much information that the average person can not consume. Our society demands specialization, while our problems are of cross disciplines.
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