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C05
The pieces of the solution exist in different disciplines that haven't learned to talk to each other — and no amount of funding within one field will solve a problem that lives between fields.
Disciplinary Silos Blocking Convergent Research
20 problems across 10 domains · v3: 6 → v4: 15 → v5: 16 → v6: 17
Shared Structural DNA
These ~16 problems exist at boundaries between fields. Climate models can't predict ice sheet collapse because climate modelers and ice sheet modelers use incompatible numerical frameworks. Autonomous vehicles need formal verification, computer vision, and AI decision-making, but these fields use incompatible mathematical languages. The knowledge exists somewhere — it's trapped in disciplinary containers. The breakthrough isn't more research within disciplines — it's shared language, methods, and incentives across them.
Disciplines studying life from different angles need shared frameworks — evolution, neuro-environmental, genotype-phenotype, RNA modification
Safety-critical systems need to compose guarantees from incompatible mathematical foundations
Physical systems spanning multiple scales or physics domains need integrated models
Member Problems
Domain Spread