Well, Watson may have been a biologist of sorts, but Crick was very much a very hard-nosed physicist, and it's physics, in fact, that seems to have given birth to the biology of today, the biology of genetics. And I would say that interdisciplinarity is actually a great root of modern biology, and, especially, modern molecular biology. But we work together. And we still talk to physicists. One of these themes was about robotics, but intelligent, adaptive robotics in the way in which knowledge about neuroscience could impact how such intelligent robots could be built.
Present robots tend to be really controlled, whereas animals are much less controlled.
So putting together the kinds of ideas that were in Bob Full's session and in the neurodynamics and neurosciences session could be a very exciting direction. I think this is a good idea - but only up to a point. We have a whole bunch of problems. One is that organisms are so different that what you've learned in a mouse you extend, at your peril, to a human. What you've learned in one bacteria you, for sure, cannot extend to the next bacteria that you're concerned about.