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Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options before making a decision. Yet in order to choose among the available options, we have to agree on the options available to us, and there outcomes. But many times we find ourselves in disagreement about the options or the ways the world behave. These disagreements are the results of differences in our understanding of how the world works. So in order to be able to better understand why we perceive the world differently, I suggest we have to understand how our knowledge is built, and why it is different from person to person. This Page will try to explain how knowledge is built and why we perceive the world differently.
Knowledge is an entity that we We use knowledge to explain , predict and predict behaviour manipulate the behavior of the inner and outer world as we perceive it. I say that we perceive the world and not the world itself, because we have no access to the world itself. All our knowledge about the "world" comes from our senses. We all have some explanation perceptions, visions, smells, touch and intuitions so on, which are common and by some that are uniquely ours. Due to the differences, each and every one of combination tell us has different predictions something about the "outer-world" or our "inner-world". How this Our knowledge is created and how it relates to the “real world” is the quest epistemologists has set before themselvesconstructed from massages we get from our senses.
Yet for For more then than 2500 years of epistemology, [[The Historircal overview of the phenomenological cage|nobody had found a reliable way to establish the a relations of between perception or knowing about knowledge and the “real world”“world”]]. To demonstrate the problem of the relations between knowledgeand the world, we may use the thought experiment of the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat brain in a vat]”. In this thought experiment, you are asked to find a reliable way to know if you really exists as you perceive it, or you are actually a brain in a vat, which gets it's sensory inputs from a computer, that simulate the perceived world.
Till today nobody was able to find a reliable answer to this question. People sometime suggest that Hillary Putnaham had found a way, but her his conclusions say otherwise. He conclude that we can not distinguish between realty and virtual experience<ref>Putnam, H. (1981): "Brains in a vat" in Reason, Truth, and History, Cambridge University Press; reprinted in DeRose and Warfield, editors (1999): Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader, Oxford UP</ref>.
Therefore, we have to set for now an axiom that says:
:“''We can not have any knowledge about the inner or outer-world''”. Or in Kant's methodology, we will never know the noumenon.
The only thing we can say is that we percive or observe phenomena. We have some idea of the world as we perceive it. How this representation is constructed, we will have to suggest. a a result of our inability to go beiond our perceptions or phenomena, I will call this principle '''"The phenomenological cage principle"'''.
Philosophers had tried since Hume and Kant to describe the inner mechanisms that constructed our perception, but no final solution was achieved. So to solve this problem I will use ideas that were taken from neurophysiology, that may comply to the philosophic literature.
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