Complementing this subjective stability, most of us most of the time also perceive ourselves as being ‘real’. This may seem obvious, but remember from chapter 6 that the experience of things in the world as ‘really existing’ is not evidence of direct perceptual access to an objective reality, but a phenomenological property that needs to be explained. There, I proposed that to be useful for the perceiving organism, our perceptual best guesses need to be experienced as really existing out there in the world, rather than as the brain-based constructions that in truth they are. The same reasoning
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