Donald Clark references what is coming to be called the new Copernican evolution, "a Copernican revolution of the mind, where we must recognise, just as we recognised that the earth is no longer the centre of the Universe, that we also are no longer the centre or standard for intelligence." The context is a discussion of the book The Infinity Machine, about Demis Hassabis, which I haven't read, but which I probably would if there were an open access version around. More on the book from The Guardian; while Clark calls Hassabis a "polymath" the Guardian comments, "sadly, Mallaby mistakes Hassabis's intelligence in one field - computing - for general brilliance across all domains, treating his half-formed pub takes on the nature of reality and aspirations to build a Large Hadron Collider as if they were revelatory dispatches."
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