A couple more thoughts: * This idea of data being acted upon by intelligences is essentially a generalisation of the canonical algorithms and data structures.

A couple more thoughts: * This idea of data being acted upon by intelligences is essentially a generalisation of the canonical algorithms and data structures. * The argument presented would also explain why anyone accustomed to a certain command line interface will swear by it over most graphical interfaces to the same system (the reason being that commands are usually a much more direct interface between the system and the user intelligence).