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this is a really cool "dichotomy".

I was just discussing this in terms of "sages" which know things, they recall and store "stateful data"

and "seers" (like in the verb to see); them who don't know things but perceive them and observe them.

I’ve had this thought as well, though always regarded the “functional” skills to be more of a coping mechanism for the lack of high-throughput state. It’s not that I’m naturally good at systematic thinking, but that I’ve been forced to become competent, and I envy the person who can operate wholistically.

This description reminds me a lot of the fluid vs crystallized intelligence. The way that’s always been described to me is that younger people always have a faster brain but as we age, we can make up for our slowness in having a lot of experience to draw on.