[arisbe__]

> "if you want to be come a real biologist"

I love Wilson and in particular his prose, but he never himself seemed to get very far into any sort of "understanding" type of consilience himself (he was a professional scientist after all).

Your quote from him reads like someone looking back on a past personal realization of a significant paradigm shift and expansion of perspective when they are themselves at the same time already of a bygone era blindly living in a lower dimension (as are most).

[Angostura]

What was the nature of lower dimension he was trapped in, in your opinion?