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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The problem with defining “intellectual” in some fashion other than socially or institutionally is that you end up slipping toward a definition like “a tendency toward abstraction/analysis” — which is pretty much the human cognitive condition, so broad that it delimits nothing.
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I don't think that's necessarily as broad as you say. Difficulty of measurement and discrimination does not mean there are no fundamental differences there. For example, people with long, integrative memories who are able to relate current events to events long ago.
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