AT:  "First, I would not say that we see our phenomenal world. The phenomenal world is our conscious experience."

But I thought you said the phenomenal world is the real world "as it appears to us".  How can it "appear" to us if we do not see it?

AT: "What we see are neurons, glia, and other biological stuff. We don't see little pictures because the conscious brain contains biophysical representations (spatiotopic analogs) of the real world, not little copies of what's out there. "

So if we can't see little pictures inside the brain, can we at least see these 'analog' things - say, with a powerful microscope? For example, what does the analog of an aircraft carrier look like? (Given the idea of an analogy, I guess it must resemble an aircraft carrier in some way - but rather smaller, of course.)

DA