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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I am prepared to believe in a nonhuman, nonlinguistic intellectual. But I’m going to have more questions about the bit after the comma than the bit before. Until then? Yeah. Intellectual is metacognition, and language is needed for the strange loop.
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Intellectual likes playing with Lego blocks AND figuring out different possible block combinations. Language is medium to communicate a Lego block combination to another; telepathy could also achieve comms. For public intellectual, the Lego blocks are public policy.
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I don’t know if it is, but it seems that way.
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