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The Role of Consciousness in Perception

The Phenomenal experience and beliefs

- Belief refers to the ability to hold that the world is a certain way.

- This aligns with Immanuel Kant's ideas that we only perceive phenomenal representations of reality.

- Therefore, consciousness does not allow us to understand the world as it is.

- At the core, consciousness allows us to hold beliefs about the qualitative character of the world.

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