> You get at the degree to which all human knowledge is limited by the central nervous system that humans possess.
I think that our current revolution, the Internet and computers in general, is allowing us to overcome these limits.
The question is how to integrate them better, how to improve the link between humans and computers, and how to improve our own cognition in the most natural, most human way to get the most out of the whole of human knowledge that is now available everywhere.
Don't forget writing. Before writing (in some form or another), humans just had to remember things. Writing allowed them to recall things over a much greater period of time, as well as share them.
I think that our current revolution, the Internet and computers in general, is allowing us to overcome these limits.
The question is how to integrate them better, how to improve the link between humans and computers, and how to improve our own cognition in the most natural, most human way to get the most out of the whole of human knowledge that is now available everywhere.
And for this, we need generalists.