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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 narrow knowledge band and no BS filter
Most people probably require different incentives. Like health problems leading you to study medical topics etc...But what if the medical topics you study lead you to reiki?
Is a robust BS filter a prerequisite to interdisciplinary learning? Or will the process of learning improve your BS filter. I suspect it's both. Though, the more people I know, the more I push toward genetic determinism. I'm hovering around 25/75% right now. The i's currently favoring determinism.