Any stimulus to a system such as described in this paper can be coded into a binary representation. A character on a piece of paper can be represented in binary form by dividing the paper into many small squares and assigning a 1 to a square if the character covers that square, and a 0 to the square if the character does not cover it.
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R. L. Mattson (1959) studied this question.