I think the author of these tweets is falling in to a common trap of trying to reverse engineer why our brains do what they do and try to ascribe intent to rand

I think the author of these tweets is falling in to a common trap of trying to reverse engineer why our brains do what they do and try to ascribe intent to randomness. Everything our brains do is the product of a billion years of random evolutionary events leading up to a system that does something useful for our survival. Trying to explain how our brain processes "images" like a camera is the first mistake. The universe is a wild cacophony of matter and energy and what we see in our brains is just a rendition of the salient bits of data gathered from that noise. Looking at a second hand on a clock or a mirror was never an evolutionary selector. Neither was seeing infrared or ultraviolet. At least, not for humans. If you want to compare it to a system, then a neural network is actually pretty apt (no coincidence there). Data goes in, conclusions come out. The mechanism takes thousands of byzantine shortcuts to get from A to B and the result is a small number of egregious blindspots in an otherwise highly efficient system.