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Chapter 10 Gregory Bateson's "Uncovery" Of Ecological Aesthetics

2008· article· en· W2331151243 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Peter Harries‐Jones

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcologyPerceptionBeautyAestheticsEnvironmental ethicsSustainabilitySociologyGeographyEpistemologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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UN reports generally concentrate upon quantitative analysis of the direct drivers of ecology on global poverty and ecosystem change, but the contributors to the Millennial Ecosystem Assessment (MA) have initiated a discussion of 'indirect driv- ers' - the relation of culture, aesthetics and spirituality to global climate change - and, for the first time, have made this qualitative evidence endogenous to their models. The MA validates ecological aesthetics as a science of quality but finds difficulty in present- ing evidence in support of its claim. Ecological aesthetics has achieved prominence at local level as well, among those in forestry management of national, provincial and state parks in the United States and Canada. Yet they too find difficulty in assessing evidence; indeed their attempts to derive a match between perceptual categories of aesthetic beauty and ecological sustainability have generally failed. The qualitative sci- ence of ecological aesthetics which Bateson developed towards the end of his life offers several avenues out of the near impasse in these two cases. Bateson studies ecological aesthetics at a second order level, stressing the contextual difference between industrial society's understanding of basic categories of space, time and connectivity, and the same categories perceived from a more 'holistic' point of view - ecological aesthetics as a form of conservation of time.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.259
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.180 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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