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Is a Grand Unified Earth System Science possible? And if so, what might it look like? My best GUESS.

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Newtonian and Darwinian science deal with different phenomena, rely on different epistemologies, and are carried out by different scientific cultures. Yet if a Grand Unified Earth System Science (GUESS) is possible, a framework is needed in which those two sciences are miscible. I suggest that information the- ory, as extended and applied by Jaynes, provides that overarching framework and show promising examples from ecology and climate science of the capacity of information theory to cut through complexity.

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