It seems to me that civilizations have an emergent intellect that operates and updates on a larger timescale than individual generations, and is usually not comprehended and rarely apprehended by even the most educated members of its polis.
Top mathematicians and physicists tend to work in isolation from the public hiveminds.
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To some extent, but they are still embedded in a matrix of reality. Even the man who loved only numbers, Erdös, still had to interact with humans. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=bufferbab16&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com …
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It seems that by and large, he avoided that quite successfully.
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