Out of a creative jumble of ideas in the middle of last Century: Wiener, interdisciplinarity, and all that

- The hodgepodge of concepts involving Biophysics, Cybernetics, CogSci and Wiener
- Aspects of interdisciplinarity in Wiener
- Implicit epistemology of Wiener in contrast with Caianiello
- Wiener's Cybernetics compared with other approaches in biophysics
- Legacy of Wiener on AI and cognitive sciences, and connection to biophysics

Is Biophysics an interdisciplinary science? In order to answer this rhetorical question, it can be useful to look back at history of disciplines, as well as that of the scientific institutions helping their development. In this contribution some aspects of the unusual hodgepodge of concepts involving Biophysics, the legacy of Cybernetics, cognitive science and the central figure of Norbert Wiener are presented and discussed.