Human beings have always taken their own minds as the reference point for what intelligence is and what intelligence ought to be. For centuries we have praised the abilities that separate the “clever” from the “stupid”: mathematics, literature, abstract reasoning, the mastery of symbolic systems. These have become the gold standards, the abilities through which we judge ourselves and each other.
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