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A millennia-old struggle of
Formal Symbolic Intelligence against Informal Neuronal Intelligence


Leroi-Gourhan (1984): "Hand and Word" (Le Geste et la Parole)
Intelligence is a result of hand-mind combination.

Klages (1981): "Der Geist als Widersacher der Seele"
Interpreted as an account of the 5000-year history of silent war of proponents of Formal Symbolic Intelligence against Neuronal Intelligence. Power struggles of social groups:

Proponents of Formal Symbolic Intelligence:
The Literati, Writing and Mathematics.

Proponents of Informal Neuronal Intelligence:
Hunters, Craft and Peasant traditions.

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