Maybe so, but the ads were so annoying I couldn't keep reading. It was almost comical how they kept popping up every few seconds, like some kind of parody.
Curiously this article presents a different hypothesis about why he is able to read 0 and 1:
> It's also "surprising" that his brain doesn't have problems with "0" and "1," McCloskey added. It's not clear why, but those two numbers might look similar to letters like "O" or "lowercase l," he said. Or those two numbers might be processed differently than other numbers in the brain, as "zero wasn't invented for quite a long time after the other digits were," he said.
> Or those two numbers might be processed differently than other numbers in the brain, as "zero wasn't invented for quite a long time after the other digits were," he said.
Come on, that's just silly. What are they even suggesting here? Zero is encoded in a different area of RMS's brain because he learned it as an adult, after its invention under the Nixon administration?
Also from that page: "The group of researchers created new digits for RFS which they called "surrogate digits" so that he could use them in daily life."
That's just not some sort of new jargon, it's what the word surrogate means! How does someone end up writing for a living without learning how to use a dictionary?
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Curiously this article presents a different hypothesis about why he is able to read 0 and 1:
> It's also "surprising" that his brain doesn't have problems with "0" and "1," McCloskey added. It's not clear why, but those two numbers might look similar to letters like "O" or "lowercase l," he said. Or those two numbers might be processed differently than other numbers in the brain, as "zero wasn't invented for quite a long time after the other digits were," he said.