If you exclude reading, writing, speaking, and listening (ie use of language, including math or code) as mere table stakes, how would you define “intellectual” in terms of essential non-language behaviors that non-intellectuals typically don’t exhibit?
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So intellectuals are simply scholars? Also, I don’t think that intellectuals are distinguished from non-intellectuals by their behavior. More, however, by how others behave towards them
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You’re misreading the question. In your terms I’m asking what distinguishes full intellectuals from “mere scholars”
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An intellectual computes a function not efficiently computable by a non-intellectual—because of having key state (from canon, grand tour), or computational superiority.
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Canon = language input. Which leaves your definition resting on grand tour alone (by which I assume you mean actual wide-ranging travel)
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Do you think it's possible to recognize contemplative, or philosophical, thought just through observing the individual engrossed?
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Compression: All that reading distilled into a constallation of small core ideas.
Many voracious readers’ mind appear like an information vending machine: Confusion + overweight big ideas.
Then there are those who compress things into a beautiful scaffolding: Many small ideas.
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