Well, I'm trying to think from "inside the mind" here... as a user, pathways are quite irrelevant. "Knowing" you have a broken pathway might bring consolation but that's it.

Also, I guess I'm not a True aphant, because I certainly see stuff in a way, that is my pathways aren't just destroying the information they are constantly getting through the eyes. If nothing else, there are dreams. Maybe we should reconsider a "0" to be someone who can't dream.

Perhaps a question: do you have a description for what exactly you seem to be missing, i.e. what is it you think you should be able to do but can't?

And that part with "faithful", it's not easy to describe... I was thinking about how an imagined scene (dream) is formed. From what I can gather, it's "holistic" and begins as a rough outline, into which details are then added, wherever the visualizer chooses to focus << way simplified, because it involves way more than just "seeing". I would say "visualizing" is more about moving into a scene than recalling ("knowing") what an object looks like. What's the definition anyway?