What's the link between Experience and Perception?

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I think your perception of something can change if you've been in the same position, or experienced the same thing. A lot of people pass judgement without ever having any sort of knowledge of what things are like from someone else's point of view.

Perception is directly related to experience. You might say it is the sum total of experience.

When an outsider is looking into something as a bystander, he creates in his mind an idea of how his experience will go if he tries that "something."

Example- outside the door of a restaurant looking at pictures of food on the menu.

He comes inside and orders that very dish. He tries it.
Bleaahch. He hates it.

After that experience- his perception has been rearranged. It is now colored by reality.

This is the dangerous portion of the process of judgment. One bad restaurant do not make that dish truly horrible.
But the judgment and perception of that man? Cemented.

Wisdom happens only when you allow yourself to examine other restaurants for the same food dish.

One more example. A workplace. It is a bad workplace, yet a man comes in day after day, absorbing it all, unable to escape. After all, he needs the job. It is a living. His perception of the job and the place? It sucks.

Can you trust his perception? Yes.

Consciousness has to have experience, to give it something to work with. It begins "tabula rasa." But experience fills that blank slate, that empty table so that eventually conscious is the:
"direct and immediate apprehension by a knowing subject of itself, of its conscious states, of other minds, of an external world, of universals, of values or of rational truths."
http://www.ditext.com/runes/i.html

"The basic metaphysical issue that lies at the root of any system of philosophy [is] the primacy of existence or the primacy of consciousness.

"The primacy of existence (of reality) is the axiom that existence exists, i.e., that the universe exists >independent of consciousness (of any consciousness),<
that things are what they are, that they possess a specific nature, an identity. The epistemological corollary is the axiom that consciousness is >the faculty of perceiving that which exists<
—and that man gains knowledge of reality by looking outward.

"The rejection of these axioms represents a reversal: the primacy of consciousness—the notion that the universe has no independent existence, >that it is the product of a consciousness (either human or divine or both).<
The epistemological corollary is the notion that man gains knowledge of reality by looking inward (either at his own consciousness or at the revelations it receives from another, superior consciousness)."
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pr...

"Descartes began with the basic epistemological premise of [ ] "the prior certainty of consciousness," the belief that the existence of an external world is >not self-evident,<
but must be proved by deduction from the contents of one's consciousness
—which means: the concept of consciousness as some faculty other than the faculty of perception
—which means: the indiscriminate contents of one's consciousness as the irreducible primary and absolute, to which reality has to conform.
"What followed was the grotesquely tragic spectacle of philosophers struggling to prove the existence of an external world [with an] inward stare, at the random twists of their conceptions—then of perceptions—then [going beyond perceptions--] of sensations."
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pr...