Originally posted by Draklar
Yep, fascinating indeed... almost as fascinating as the fact that you can read letter \"A\" just by looking at it and not by dragging your sight after each line 
Seriously tho\', I think it\'s cool, but not really fascinating... it\'s minor to the fact that well trained person can read whole page just by looking at it.
Not to mention what mind can together with body, even without bigger training... just by belief or special state of awareness.
Also I don\'t think this spelling discovery shows power of human mind... rather it is yet another example of how easy it is to fool it: \"Give it a hint and a heap of letters... the dummy will use subconsciousness to save its own resources, and as a result consider it an actual word\" 
This is because the brain is made for
image processing, not for
text processing, which doesn\'t surprise, as there is a great shortage of text in nature.
Anyway, by processing text as image, the brain must allow for great variations and also compensate for missing parts, in order to recognise the meaning appropriately and with some reliability.
Also, this is why icons and graphical UIs are easier to get used to than text: it doesn\'t have to be learned and to eb converted. While you can instantly recognise an image, you can\'t read text as easily, even if it\'s only one single word.
It\'s not actually saving resources, it is more acting as usual. That, BTW, is why proof-reading is so hard, since you\'ll miss spelling mistakes if you don\'t concentrate really hard.
