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You can represent anything as text.

That's either under some pretty narrow definition of "anything" or some pretty broad definition of "text".

You can start proving your point by representing the smell of incense as "text" and see how far that takes you.

Do the constraints our brains work under disquallify us from having general intelligence?

No.

Then your defintion of intelligence is kind of arbitrary

Why not? You can control robots with a sequence of text instructions.