As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds…

In a Thumbnail Sketch here is [the Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness] so far: There is no single, definitive 'stream of consciousness,' because there is …

We're all zombies.* *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!