> Those photoreceptors have relayed this information across a nerve to neurons in your brain which receive this encoded information and splay it out to an array of other neurons.

> Each cell in this chain can rightfully claim to be a living organism in and of itself. “You” haven’t directly “seen” anything.

What am "I" if not (at least partly) the cells in that chain? If they have "seen" it (where seeing is the complex chain you described), I have.