Why is it a useful goal to not understand control theory? Animals like us have plenty of control theory built into our firmware, even if we aren't going throug

Why is it a useful goal to not understand control theory? Animals like us have plenty of control theory built into our firmware, even if we aren't going through the calculations on the cognitive software level. A control system, tuned and running, is a few lines of code in a fast loop, or a feedback amplifier circuit. Just like a neural net, it takes a while to tune the coefficients but then it becomes muscle memory. And since much of control theory is fully general (like Bode's sensitivity integral), those principles must also hold for biological systems as well. A baby doesn't think about Laplace transforms when learning to walk, but neither do they think about backpropagation. If you're keen to replace control theory with something else, I recommend solidly understanding it first.