specialists

They are complete strangers to imagination, fancy and invention,
nor do they have any words in their language by which those ideas can be expressed. 'The whole compass of their thoughts and mind,
being shut up within the two forementioned sciences'.

The specialist is a person who devotes himself to a special occupation or branch of learning. It is an individual who has very deeply studied a particular field and a good specialist knows all about the 'particular' field. The more expert he becomes the more he will get to know about less. The superspecialist therefore knows 'everything about nothing'.

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit, - Life!
Emily Dickinson

The poem by Emily Dickinson is exactly about this aspect of specialism. She is afraid that the surgeon 'a specialist' will be so absorbed by the 'particulars' that he runs the danger of forgetting that we need their help because we live. Similarly specialists may be so absorbed by certain 'particulars' that they entirely forget the environment. They may also have become so good that they become somewhat arrogant, assuming they know as much about other fields.
It does no harm to remind yourself that by solving particular problems in a field you know well, you may be creating bigger ones around it. Sub-optimization means that a particular part of an operation runs so well that it has little or no connection with the connecting parts. The perfect operation itself may thus become the problem. It is like constructing a perfect piece of motorway in the middle of a housing estate. The traffic experts are so involved with the motorway that they forget about the part before and after it: the bottlenecks have thus been created. So 'free-floating' like Laputa may have its advantages with regard to overview as long as one is aware of the dangers of specialism.

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