The title of the film is "The Future"; its subject and its substance is time, and it will be worthwhile to look at how July depicts time, and the distinctive cinematic intelligence she deploys to get at it.
The food has about it a distinctive gastronomic intelligence and literacy - it's Europhile in a very English way, combining deft technique and direct flavours to draw the best out of carefully chosen ingredients.
Rationality is the distinctive form that intelligence takes in human beings as animals.
All the same, the not-quite-an-optimist says, there's a vast gulf between a future rich with strange, alien and morphing descendants and a future in which the distinctive strand of intelligence that arose in our corner of the galaxy has fallen silent.
But Hawks had a distinctive notion of how intelligence serves the active person, saying: "I don't want to analyze it too much because I've seen too many people that are kind of ruined" by self-analysis.
Tool use, once thought to be the distinctive hallmark of human intelligence, has been identified in a wide variety of animals in recent decades.
What happens then is that you not only lose the distinctive strengths of human intelligence – the ability of human beings to actually question what they are doing in a way that computers can't – but you push forward with these systems in a thoughtless way, assuming that speed of decision-making is the most important thing.
Animals have brains too, however, and thus might appear to be able to carry out the simple correlation of the evidence from the various senses, whereas the human ability to make inferences and judgments (DK, B1) appears to be a more plausible candidate for the distinctive activity of human intelligence.
I attended the show as a spectator having heard "Young, Drunk and Dumb" which is a thoughtful and melodic tune showcasing Ms. Hernandez's distinctive voice and keen intelligence.
