Because of the complexity of the Universe, nobody can know everything about everything, even as facts, never mind the skills we know how to perform. In practice, we are all specialists in our occupations, whether as astrophysicists or concert pianists, for instance.

However, because we are so preoccupied with our careers, families, and other interests, few have the opportunity to discover what we all share as humans, in common with all other beings, animate or otherwise.

Specialization is also a consequence of evolutionary divergence, leading to fragmented minds, religious demarcations, and the division of labour in the workplace. Indeed, academic specialization has so divided the world of learning, I have read that academics sometimes do not understand their colleagues working along the same corridor.

Taken to the extreme, it seems that specialists know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. In contrast, generalists are those who know less and less about more and more, until they eventually know nothing about everything.

Information systems architects in business are one group of specialists who attempt to balance these extremes, using modelling methods of such generality that they can be used in all divisions and departments to develop integrated information systems for the entire enterprise.

Indeed, such ‘master builders’ have all the skills and tools that are needed to develop a harmonious system of governance for Society, as a whole, as I realized in the early noughties, when working occasionally for a company in Stockholm World Trade Center, developing advanced computer systems for investment banks trading in ‘financial instruments’.

Similarly, Panosophers are those who have taken the abstractions of mathematics, computer science, and the modelling methods underlying the Internet to the utmost level of generality, thereby developing the Method that is necessary to solve the ultimate problem of human learning, as the Theory of Everything, as a coherent cognitive map of the Totality of Existence.