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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