It is not very useful to discriminate between “seeing with your eyes” and “seeing with the aid of scientific instruments”. Vast amounts of information processing occurs between light landing on your retina and an image forming in your brain, so if you are happy to call looking through glasses, or a microscope, or a telescope, “seeing with your eyes” then I see no reason to make a distinction when the information-carrying particle switches from photons to electrons. Especially since we mostly use digital microscopes etc. these days.
Sure and most of the stories I hear I actually read printed words off a page. Somehow, I’d like people describing things to me to not worry so much about what is more important as much as I’d like them to worry about whether what they are saying is accurate. Even if a distinction is claimed to be not important by the teller, they can still stick to accurate descriptions. And sometimes, you know, people disagree about what is and isn’t important, and accuracy allows them to still communicate in a productive way.
It is not very useful to discriminate between “seeing with your eyes” and “seeing with the aid of scientific instruments”. Vast amounts of information processing occurs between light landing on your retina and an image forming in your brain, so if you are happy to call looking through glasses, or a microscope, or a telescope, “seeing with your eyes” then I see no reason to make a distinction when the information-carrying particle switches from photons to electrons. Especially since we mostly use digital microscopes etc. these days.
Sure and most of the stories I hear I actually read printed words off a page. Somehow, I’d like people describing things to me to not worry so much about what is more important as much as I’d like them to worry about whether what they are saying is accurate. Even if a distinction is claimed to be not important by the teller, they can still stick to accurate descriptions. And sometimes, you know, people disagree about what is and isn’t important, and accuracy allows them to still communicate in a productive way.
You may argue that it is not useful, but it is still natural.