[parineum]

If the definition of "seen" isn't exactly the process you've described, the word is meaningless. You've never actually posted a comment on hacker news, your neurons just fired in such a way that produced movement in your fingers which happened to correlate with words that represent concepts understood by other groups of cells that share similar genetics.

[jacquesm]

Plenty of people have thought about it deeply enough, just not the GP.