Final Gather does not need photons. Rays are cast for points at different parts of the scene and sample the colors of the objects the rays hit. The color information is sampled back to the starting point of the ray and then the color information is averaged.
Digital Tutors has a great tutorial on this:
http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?vid=4339&autoplay=1
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