I'm still curious as to why among people who are entirely illiterate in Han characters the mirroring was blatantly obvious to some and not at all to others.
Pattern recognition. I can't read Spanish or Russian or Arabic, but with enough exposure, I can probably tell if it's right-left mirrored. In the case of Spanish, it's probably very little exposure given my knowledge of English. Arabic... I have this vague idea that there tend to be swirls underneath letters that go from either L->R or R->L. So my pattern recognition is halfway there, at least in this regard. That, or I'm totally confused. :)
Now, unless you take the position that a fetus at any stage has the moral standing of a lintball but that magically at the moment the head crowns it suddenly becomes a full human person endowed with a complete set of inalienable rights plus a stylish carrying case
*raises hand* I need to think this through (no morning coffee yet), but yeah, I think that's me. My victory condition is "people have complete ownership of their own bodies and nobody else's".
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Pattern recognition. I can't read Spanish or Russian or Arabic, but with enough exposure, I can probably tell if it's right-left mirrored. In the case of Spanish, it's probably very little exposure given my knowledge of English. Arabic... I have this vague idea that there tend to be swirls underneath letters that go from either L->R or R->L. So my pattern recognition is halfway there, at least in this regard. That, or I'm totally confused. :)
Now, unless you take the position that a fetus at any stage has the moral standing of a lintball but that magically at the moment the head crowns it suddenly becomes a full human person endowed with a complete set of inalienable rights plus a stylish carrying case
*raises hand* I need to think this through (no morning coffee yet), but yeah, I think that's me. My victory condition is "people have complete ownership of their own bodies and nobody else's".