For Kant the priority is to get away from this ‘inner theatre’ model. We already met some of his approach in Chapter 4, on the self. There, we saw that various quite complex feats of organization are needed for self-consciousness. We have to organize our experience not as what Kant calls a mere ‘rhapsody’ or kaleidoscope of perceptions, but in terms of a temporal and spatial order. Only so can we get a concept of ourselves as moving amongst an independent world of objects situated in a space.
