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SUMMARY:Is a Grand Unified Earth System Science possible? And if so\, wha
 t might it look like? My best GUESS. - John Harte\, University of Californ
 ia\, Berkeley
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CONTACT:Nick Watkins
DESCRIPTION:[Part of British Antarctic Survey's "Natural Complexity meetin
 g":http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/7588.]\n\nNewtonian and Darwinian sci
 ence deal with different phenomena\, rely on different epistemologies\, a
 nd are carried out by different scientific cultures. Yet if a Grand Uni
 fied Earth System Science (GUESS) is possible\, a framework is needed in 
 which those two sciences are miscible. I suggest that information theory\,
  as extended and applied by Jaynes\, provides that overarching framework a
 nd show promising examples from ecology and climate science of the capacit
 y of information theory to cut through complexity.\n
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