I think this articulates the strain in your writing that has always felt wrong to me. I agree about the dangers of believing your formalism somehow really is reality. I don't think any cognitive process can work "directly with reality" rather than through models and formalisms.
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Ah, interesting… I hope that reading that part of the book will change your mind! An intuition pump, maybe: do insects use models and formalisms? Bacteria? Even bacteria interact with the world in complex, goal-directed, effective ways.
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