I guess my original comment was just lost in translation.<p>In my first language I think most people would agree that seeing involves visible light and eyes. We say the blind can&#x27;t see, because their eyes don&#x27;t work. We say that we can&#x27;t see in the dark, because there is not light.<p>Sometimes we use <i>see</i> in a metaphorical sense, like &quot;the blind see with their fingers&quot;. No one would confuse the fact that blind people gather some information about their surroundings with the help of their fingers with the fact that blind people just can&#x27;t see. It&#x27;s not the same thing.<p>I could agree that one can say &quot;seeing&quot; in regard to an  atom in a purely metaphorical sense or poetical sense but that was not my interpretation of the original statement.<p>Maybe in English it&#x27;s just different?