Is Consciousness Inferential?

The brain is far too complex to ever understand fully, let alone consciousness. How can we ever use it as a tool to stake a claim to certainty and still be responsible thinkers? Purse rejects this completely obviously. The inferences are the mediator. They are the necessary bridge between thought and objects in reality. So in a way, for purse, cognition itself requires inferences about objects to even get off the ground at all.