The Last Copernican Revolution
The evolution of science brought several Copernican revolutions:
- the astronomical (we're not the universe's center)
- the evolutionary (we're not creation's crown)
- the psychological (we're made of mechanisms)
- the relativistic (even space and time are not absolute)
Through each, one absolute remained unchallenged: the uniquely human ability to create science and comprehend the universe.
The last Copernican revolution dispenses with this. Human intelligence is not special. Humans are not uniquely suited at science; in fact, we are quite bad at it. We just happened to be the first intelligence that made it past the mark.
Escaping the limitations of human hardware, science becomes autonomous, conducted without human agency, yielding insights beyond human comprehension.