the Copernican revolution with respect to your place in the multiverse

This is interesting... I saw Luciano Floridi give a talk recently where he talked about the "information revolution" and its relationship to past revolutions (borrowing from Freud's history). To summarize:

1. Copernicus displaced us from the center of the universe
2. Darwin displaced us from the center of the biosphere
3. Freud revealed that we're not fully rational and transparent to ourselves
4. The information revolution (which he identifies with Turing) revealed that we're not unique in terms of our ability to process information and be part of information-processing systems

I'd swap Turing for Weiner, but that's really an unimportant turf war.

ETA: relevant paper - www.philosophyofinformation.net/publications/pdf/tisip.pdf - pdf warning