The brain creates a construct of reality rather than capturing it perfectly because the necessary processing power to see reality accurately would be too high.

“we take little bits and pieces of the information that comes in and we make up a whole lot of the rest so we do create a grand simulation put it that way”

Human cognition is rational when considered as an adaptation to the tight constraints of limited time, data, and computational resources available to the human mind.

“I try and bridge the gap between those two perspectives. understanding why it is that people make mistakes and how it is that people are nonetheless so impressive by thinking about human cognition as doing a good job of solving the problems that are posed by the world with the limited you know compu”