what our minds do well - & badly
Our minds work superbly well in some contexts, poorly in others and have no perception of some forces.
In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins describes our brains thus:
"Our brains are designed to understand hunting and gathering, mating and child-rearing; a world of medium-sized objects moving in three dimensions at moderate speeds. We are ill-equipped to comprehend the very small and the very large; things whose duration is measured in picoseconds of gigayears; particles that don't have position; forces and fields that we cannot see or touch, which we know of only because they affect things we can see or touch."