The interface theory of perception contends that there is a screen—an interface—between us and objective reality. Can we hope to pierce that screen and see objective reality? Conscious realism says yes: we have met reality and it is like us. We are conscious agents, and so is objective reality. Beyond the interface lurks no Kantian noumenon, forever alien and impervious to our inquiry. Instead, we find agents like us: conscious agents. Their variety dwarfs the dazzling diversity of creatures that have paraded the earth and bequeathed to its sediments innumerable petrified mementos of their
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