The Limitations of Human Understanding of the World

Runyuan Gan ()
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Runyuan Gan: East China Jiaotong University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Helix Network Theory, 2023, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter begins with the story of six blind men trying to depict an elephant by touching, which reveals the limitations and the one-sidedness of human understanding of the world. Due to the overly specialised division of labour and disciplinary differentiation, most people in modern society become visually impaired in that they can only see a singular tree instead of the vast forest. The number of specialists trained in modern society is far more than that of all-rounders, which makes all-rounders with interdisciplinary abilities needed more than ever.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8803-5_1

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