Pure reason increases the challenges the mind faces in understanding ideas and concepts. Human experience forms a vital part in the development of reasoning in the mind faculties of humans. The mind uses the experiences to develop and build principles and laws, which enhance the comprehension of nature. Therefore, time becomes a necessity in expanding and enhancing the ideology of human reason. The experiences help in forming man’s idea of reality. The mind operates by increasing its capacities from which humans are able to make judgments. The experience to be beneficial perception and concepts are necessary. Organization of the experiences into information is significant to ensure that it can be used by the mind. Organization of information is guided through the process of synthesis, which enhances the grouping of various representations and organizes them into a single form of knowledge, which can be readily understood by the human mind. Kant’s perception is that humans can be able to increase their understanding about different objects based on the activities of the mind. The only limit to understanding of objects and different representations is the extent of before hand knowledge existing in the mind.
Kant (130) notes, the connection of concepts and experiences using before hand knowledge requires or follows a certain process of succession in the mind. Organization of information follows three processes of synthesis. There is the process of apprehension of intuition, reproduction in imagination and the recognizing of concepts. Firstly, the mind acquires representations, which are then reproduced to images, which can then be easily recognized into concepts. The formation of representations occurs through apprehension of intuition. This includes the raw perceptual contribution. Kant indicates that this creation of apprehension in intuition through time becomes connected and related in the mind. Intuitions adopted may have varied things hence the mind will have to differentiate every intuition based on the variety of things it may contain. Time becomes essential in the differentiation process to enable the formation of different representations from the various intuitions. The provision of temporal and spatial locations to the different representations aids in avoiding the development of confusion. Memory thus is responsible for the creation of representations from the intuition.
Another significant role of the memory is the creation of reproduction in imagination from the representations that are created. The mind uses certain rules that are developed because of before hand knowledge to relate different representations. Representations that have an association with one another will be linked together based on certain memory rules. Under the reproduction in imagination, intuitions acquired from experience are used in a way to relate earlier representations with current ones. This helps to develop a form of transition in the mind. . Thus, a person requires earlier representations to be able to understand the existing ones. The representations from an earlier temporal and space location makes it possible for one to perceive the present perceptions. The memory helps in establishing that the representations that are associated have or follow a certain sequence hence need to be assimilated together. The rules are based on certain conventional laws. For example, Kant (132) indicates that if rules are not defined it can be difficult for the memory to form concrete interpretations of representations. For instance, it becomes difficult for the memory to associate a thing named in one way and then changes and is named in another way. Thus, the memory stores prior representations, which are used, later in time to create images that help in developing a clearer picture of the initial intuitions. Therefore, the rules contained in the memory are necessary in developing representations into images, which the mind can recognize and develop a concept based on the rules of imagination inherent in the memory. The processes of apprehension of intuition and reproduction in imagination are co-dependent and one cannot function without the other.
The memory thus contributes to the understanding of a concept. Consciousness inherent in the mind is critical in recognizing concepts and understanding the succession of various representations. In this case, the consciousness of the mind helps to relate by combining the different concepts that may result from the imagination to form a concrete conclusion of a concept that can be understood. The lack of consciousness in the mind implies that concepts cannot be understood. The integration of the processes of creating representations, creating imaginations is thus critical in the recognizing concepts. The absence of rules in understanding varied representations may make it difficult for the individual to understand why things are they way they are and the importance of succession of these activities. Understanding concepts requires that the human mind is able to relate materials forming the object based on the temporal and spatially acquired knowledge of the object. Therefore, the mind has a task of establishing how various elements forming an object are related. There is the development of inner sense, which uses experience to make the experience relevant.
Work Cited
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason.1781. Print.
