When we attend to a perception we become conscious of it, and then we think about it or react to it. This theatre contains a person's experience of the world. It is how the person represents the world to themself moment by moment, and how they interpret events within it.
Upstream problems in perception gradually result in cognitive deficits, as the brain tries to learn from and adapt to a lifetime of faulty information. Consciousness suffers too, particularly with regard to attention and working memory. The quality of one's inner awareness can deteriorate as poorly formed perceptions fail to provide the structural basis for well-coordinated attention shifts, and as ill-formed cognitive networks lead to confused internal representations of the world.
This leaves the brain in a state of constant noise; starved of accurate information.
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