have tried to show how neural
processes such as perception and inference enable brains to have knowledge of reality. Implication,
like inference, is not a simple relation, as it requires looking at the most fully coherent system of
hypotheses, assessed through the dynamic interaction of representations operating in parallel. Hence
my argument is not some simple deduction: minds are brains, so constructive realism is true. Rather,
like all inferences, my conclusions are justified by overall coherence: given that minds are brains,
and given everything else we know, the most coherent conclusion is that people use perception and
inference to the best explanation to construct knowledge about reality.