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Synthesis: An intellectual is someone who seeks to enrich life over its whole span by integrating the fruits of sustained curiosity into continuously maintained explicit appreciative models of the world that may or may not be situated in a tradition or have instrumental value.
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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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1) paraphrased: someone who can’t stop trying to figure out what‘s going on by applying a mental toolkit of some level of abstraction/sophistication 2) comes to mind that unsurprisingly you are a prototypical, perhaps even hardcore, example
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