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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:Newtonian and Darwinian science deal with different phenomena
 \, rely on different epistemologies\, and are carried out by different sc
 ientific cultures. Yet\nif a Grand Unified Earth System Science (GUESS) 
 is possible\, a framework is needed in which those two sciences are miscib
 le. I suggest that information the-\nory\, as extended and applied by Jayn
 es\, provides that overarching framework and show promising examples from 
 ecology and climate science of the capacity of information theory to cut t
 hrough complexity.\n
LOCATION:Law Faculty\, Cambridge
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