Is There a Kind of Intelligence?

I think another thing that I was thinking about and what you just said is these modes of being of existing interacting with the world that are kind of adjacent to human experience. And so when you're doing really rote things, you know, you're maybe translating or you're kind of moving things around an Excel spreadsheet for like hours on end, there is a sense in which you kind of become something that is a little bit more limited. So it's even strange to call it kind of intelligence, but I don't know what else you would call it. Mathematical notation is a kind of intelligence like a human with algebraic notation as a tool to wield is much smarter and more effective.

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