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by cmehdy 2851 days ago
Interestingly enough this only ever attempts to answer the technical part but doesn't consider the electrophysiology and psychology of it. What happens in your brain when you start typing each letter? And in your arms and fingers? And your memory? What if you have dyslexia? Or Parkinson's? Or dementia? What if your primary language is Swahili? And so on.

This question can truly be incredibly interesting.

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Yeah, I could have sworn I saw an alternate version of this what-happens-when wiki which spent more time describing "your brain sends signals which are interpreted as follows …"

But I didn't come up with it in a quick Web search and thought maybe I had dreamed it.