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by bluehavana 5340 days ago
Yes. The time it takes to recognize something with your visual cortex is orders of magnitudes less than reading words.

Learning what the icons mean might take a little time and one might argue that spacial patterns are learned when reading anyways.

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How do you know my visual cortex can't process words?

It's just a few symbols, I doubt that the difference between one symbol and 10 is that different for a learning machine like the human brain. (Especially since the location of the symbols is what matters. They show up in the same place every time, you only need the general shape of the word to confirm that's that right one.)