Mostly Kant

Our view of the world, however, is not given to us from the outside in a pure, object form; it is shaped by our mental faculties, our shared cultural perspectives and our unique values and beliefs. 

This is not to say that there is no reality outside our minds or that the world is just an illusion. It is to say that our version of reality is precisely that: our version, not the version. There is no single, universal or authoritative version that makes sense, other than as a theoretical construct. We can see the world only as it appears to us, not "as it truly is," because there is no "as it truly is" without a perspective to give it form.

Philosopher Thomas Nagel argued that there is no "view from nowhere," since we cannot see the world except from a particular perspective, and that perspective influences what we see. We can experience the world only through the human lenses that make it intelligible to us. We do not experience things "as they really are"; we experience things "as we really are". -- Closing the Mind Gap

Reminded me of the book on drug addictions, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. First, a pregnant mother being depressed has a permanent influence upon the child's adult personality. Second, the way a child is brought up, the environment their minds are stimulated in, of course shapes them into the way they are. Third, even well into adult lives, some drug uses permanently damage a brain's biological mechanism for decision-making.

Insight: physically, shape your brain the way you want to. That's our world-perceiving sense-making organ. If with this body of a human species I can't see ultra red or smell from ten miles away, at least I can try to improve the way I perceive the world through my current limited way of perception.

Also a fun visualisation to imprint this on my brain: imagine my consciousness, my world perceiving standpoint being switched into behind another pair of eyes. Thinking with a bird's brain. Thinking with a homeless person's brain, behind their eyes. Thinking with a cat's brain and cognitive abilities, seeing from their eyes. What does the world look like?