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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... While shame is a rather primitive instinct in my book, and appealing to it is not very intellectual to my taste ... ... technically, continuing with the poker analogy, metagame is important, and poking an opponent's inner state is part of being smart. So, the analogy is OK.
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