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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 theןir 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.
I say will suggest that we perceive the world and not the world itself, because we have no access people use knowledge to the world itself. All our knowledge about the "world" comes from our senses. We have perceptions, visions, smellsexplain, touch predict and so on, which by some combination tell us something about manipulate the "outer-world" or our "inner-world". Our knowledge is constructed from inputs we get that come from our the senses.
For more than 2500 years of epistemology, [[The Historical overview of the phenomenological cage|nobody had found a reliable way to establish a relations between perception and the “surrounding”]]. To demonstrate the problem of the relations between knowledge and 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 Philosophers sometime suggest that Hillary Putnaham had found a way, but his conclusions say otherwise. He conclude concluded that we can not cannot 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 do not have any know the relation between our knowledge about and the inner or outer-world''”. Or in Kant's methodology, we will never cannot 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 perception is constructed, we I will have to suggestlater own in this paper. a as 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.