Kant didn't say that the senses were ingesting information. Rather, he said the categories of the mind made sense of the sensory manifold. The categories gave s

Kant didn't say that the senses were ingesting information. Rather, he said the categories of the mind made sense of the sensory manifold. The categories gave structure to the chaos.The give rise to the phenomenal world we experience. They are not the thing in itself, whatever the world is. You're assuming the sensory organs passively take in information, instead of creating it from all the noise in the world. That the world feeds us information the way we feed generative models. But humans have already taken the trouble to create the information in language, images, video.