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There is a big difference between creating new "understanding" of things within the mind, and creating new "things" within the mind, this is the point I believe being made by Kriminal99.

The human mind does not create new reality prior to the process of understanding, it takes reality as given by the senses and forms concepts that then lead to understanding. The human mind does not understand reality, it understands concepts it has created based on the reality given by its senses. If it were true that the human mind could understand reality, that would mean the human mind knows what is inside reality as subject outside itself as object--such is impossible. The human mind may take concepts and create new understanding of them, at times creating new concepts by combining prior concepts, as new facts of reality become known over time. All above is under the control of volition.