The Blind Spot of Knowledge's Physiology (Reprise)

No background information is necessary for this meetup. To what degree can the eye see itself? Trivially, a mirror gets us a long way. However, are there any direct means? Can that which sees see itself, directly? Besides being, perhaps, an annoying question that epitomizes why people avoid philosophy, physics dissolves interest in this question to all but the most intransigent idealists. The idea of irreducible atoms of idealism - that which looks and that which is being seen - is dissolved by the analytical insight modernity has granted us. As physical analysis grates down that which looks and that which is seen into more fundamental components, it, too, grates down interest in the question. It dissolves the difference between "direct" and "indirect" by revealing this difference is an heuristic artifact endemic to human comprehension of things, not endemic to things. Moreover, physical analysis reveals an emitter of light cannot, at one instant, also receive and process that light. The seeing-seen system is broken down into progressively smaller units of time and space, thereby…