Human perception has limits
Reality is far too complex for us to take it all in.
Everything-all-at-once. We are exposed to approximately eleven million pieces of information per second (Wilson, 2004). The genius —and curse— of human cognition is that we have pre-cognitive filters and biases that help us only attend to the stimuli that are relevant to our physical, psychological and social lives. To avoid being overwhelmed by everything-all-at-once, we MUST rely on cognitive pre-filters, biases, and shortcuts to navigate in our physical and social worlds.