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[macroevolution]

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[macroevolution.livejournal.com]

Теория и практика таких обсуждений хорошо описана в книге D. Dennett 'Darwin's dangerous idea' (evolbiol.ru/large_files/dennett.pdf):

The problem here is how to get the pendulum to stop swinging back and forth so destructively. Time and again we see the same failure of communication (...) Recall the difference between reductionists and greedy reductionists (chapter 3, section 5): reductionists think everything in nature can all be explained without skyhooks; greedy reductionists think it can all be explained without cranes. But one theorist's healthy optimism is another theorist's unseemly greed. One side proposes an oversimple crane, at which the other side scoffs—"Philistine reductionists!"—declaring, truthfully, that life is much more complicated than that. "Bunch of crazy skyhook-seekers!" mutters the first side, in defensive overreaction. That is what they would mutter if they had the term—but, then again, if both sides had the terms, they might be able to see what the issues really were, and avoid the miscommunication altogether. That is my hope.