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HaLeiVi
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Yitay, you probably meant 1:47.

The Rambam did indeed invest energy in explaining that when it says that Hashem saw it wasn’t through eyes and when it says that Hashem hears it is not through ears. Nobody here suggested otherwise.

Moreover, today we actually use these terms without connecting them to specific limbs. Don’t we call sonar detection, vision? A computer sees and hears, without being aware of it.

The main idea is that Hashem does not have to come on to light or sound to be aware of what is happening. This too is a well understood concept in an age of infrared, sonar, magnetic, radio, and electron detection.

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=44322&st=&pgnum=315

or

http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/more/c6-2.htm#2

The Rambam discusses the Kal Vachomer.