Our minds are general purpose information processors, with significant technical debt, shortcuts, and hardwiring between software and hardware. It's optimized

Our minds are general purpose information processors, with significant technical debt, shortcuts, and hardwiring between software and hardware. It's optimized for adapting to a number of very different interactions and environments. To say they're not constructed to understand reality may or may not be true, but is beside the point. That said, I often share similar thoughts about progress towards the nature of reality.