Something written had to exist in order to be read, so writing is at least a second older than reading.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pub
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    16 days ago

    It would have been both invented at the same time right? The person writing it would have needed to decipher their own markings.

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      16 days ago

      Yeah, agreed. But OP could be technically correct, if you count the almost non existing time the person wrote something before the light from the writing reached the eye.

      But then again, there’s a higher chance someone splashed something random on a wall and thought “hey that looks like something” making reading the first, because the “writing” was not intentional making it a different action.

      Makes sense? Maybe.