There are so many levels of abstraction between us and the physical world. We learn to be domesticated animals, not to survive in the wild (or even close to it)

There are so many levels of abstraction between us and the physical world. We learn to be domesticated animals, not to survive in the wild (or even close to it). This abstraction is growing in complexity as time goes on. Ie, the distance between us and the chaos of the physical world is growing larger. This reflects the current level of technology. As of right now, we are living in a kind of ordered, programmable mini-universe.