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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 conclusions say otherwise. (ref) she conclude that we can not distinguish between realty and virtual experience.
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 observe phenomena. We have some idea of the world as we perceive it. How this representation is constructed, we will have to suggest. Philosophers had tried for centuries 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, and may comply to the philosophic literature.
===Creating of order in the Brain/Mind===
====The Phenomena====
Kant described the inputs that the mind perceives through the senses as “phenomena”. The phenomena are inputs that our senses gets from unknown sources. In the equivalent brain model, our senses get their inputs from sensory receptors.
====Propensities in the phenomena (Or order in the phenomena)====
When nothing controls the phenomena we may accept that it will have no order, but when there is something that control the phenomena we may except to find some order in it(popper a world of propensities). But even if not so, the brain/mind will assume so.
====The Similarity====
The mind assume similarity between phenomena or sensory inputs when they are closely matched oreder of phenomena. In a philospohical manner it hard to define similarity in phenomena. When using neurons we can say that when signals from the same sets of receptors or from same set og sensory objects occur simultaneously, they will initiate an LTP somewhere down the neural-networks, and will cause induction or LTP between the set of receptors or the set of sensory objects.
==Other Asspects of Epistemology==
===Bush and Mosteller Learning Curve===