We don't have the mental bandwidth or responsiveness to perceive reality. Our brains use shortcuts to observe and think. These lead to errors. We didn't need t

We don't have the mental bandwidth or responsiveness to perceive reality. Our brains use shortcuts to observe and think. These lead to errors. We didn't need to be perfect to get to this point. Just good enough to beat the environment and the other meat sacks. Predictiveness of a mental model is the the closest we can get to understanding reality.