Rediscovering Consilience

摘要

The ability to step beyond one's own academic domain and work in collaboration with other experts, sometimes even beginners, on an egalitarian platform is the order of the day. Most research initiatives today are inclusive, wherein boundaries betweendisciplines are kept amorphous by design. Words such as multidisciplinary or inter-disciplinary are passe, and the diffidence that one harboured in exchanging or sharing data is diminishing at a rapid pace.