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Fischer’s essay begins with an explanation of what consciousness is, what it encompasses, how it came about, and which activities of the brain it involves. Subsequently, he refutes Kant’s theory of knowledge as found in the famous Critique of Pure Reason. In particular Fischer finds Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” to be based upon a misconception which he replaces with a much more far-reaching and radical new idea: “The Amsterdam Razor” (A’dam’s Razor) after “Ockham’s Razor.” This idea derives from Fischer’s insight that we, via our senses, fabricate in our brain images of the reality around us, and it is there that consciousness comes into being. In that same center of consciousness our dreams take form from our subconscious. Each individual thus has his own personal image of reality.
Fischer explains that Kant’s ideas of an “a priori” knowledge are Platonic misconceptions. Space, time and causality are extrapolations from empirical facts learned from childhood onwards. With that understanding, the ground beneath transcendental philosophy falls away. Fischer advocates a new purely scientific way to approach epistemology.