Scientists search for evidence based models that can help better explain observed reality, often in the service of intervening to acheive desired outcomes.

Arguably the two ends of the scientific perspectives might be considered economics and physics. Based on the traditional division of disciplines that has developed since the Enlightment, economics and physics seem to have completely different methods, skills, literature and domains.

When a speciality of econophsyics starts to emerge, it seems plausible  that we are moving to a new stage in the discourse between the physical and social sciences. With the spread of accessible computing power, the growth of digital information, and web based collaboration tools, we may now be in a position to challenge the mind/body, physical/social duality that has framed the Eurocentric discourse.

As we are get new technology to see complexity, we can start to build models that can usefully describe the complexity of real life.

The contention is that it would be useful to reframe our academic institutions to align more closely with the emerging reality. The further contention is that all science has the long term aim of understanding life. While every scale and time frame needs different specialized skills and knowledge, it seems plausible that insights from each can be useful in all.

The suggestion is that the concept of "life sciences" can be a useful umbrella to re focus parts of mathematices, physics, chemisty, biology, demography, sociology, pyschology, economics, politics and history as well as parts of the other physical and social sciences. The further suggestion is that design practice can usefully takes its place aside clinical pyschology, clinical medical practice, social work as centers of a practice of intervention.

The scale and nature of the interventions would be to affect the communication ecology. The time frame would be determined by the nature of stress that is presented. The activity space of the intervention is determined by the space/time in which the stress presents.