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Just because you can't point to a specific part of your brain that contains the letter 'p' doesn't mean it isn't in there somewhere. If you didn't contain the letter 'p', or Getty watermark, or Picasso's work, you wouldn't be able to recognise them when you saw them or tried to replicate them. The act of recognising something that is familiar is basically the brain comparing what the eye sees with what is stored in the memory. The brain stores it differently to an exact copy on a hard drive, but it does, nevertheless, contain everything that it remembers.
I disagree that recognition implies you contain it. It's much closer to a description than the actual thing, and a description isn't the same as the thing. This is evidenced by you being able to look at a letter P in a font you've never seen before and recognize it without issue. If it was just comparison, you couldn't do that.