 Given this, forming beliefs about ordinary things and happenings connected with sounds might seem to require inference, association, or some otherwise cognitive process, and so awareness of a sound source might appear to always involve more than perceptual awareness. According to such an account, awareness of environmental things and happenings thanks to audition is epistemically mediated by awareness as of sounds and auditory objects, but does not itself constitute auditory perceptual awareness as of those things and happenings. You are inclined to think you hear the source because your representing or being aware of it co-occurs with, but is no more than a downstream consequence triggered by, your auditory experience.