This part below reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave in his work The Republic.
Without diminishing the contemporary philosopher, he has in a sense updated Plato in the IT idiom.
First, he said to imagine the universe as you perceive it to be your “human interface” with reality. Similar to the screen on your computer, it represents what is happening, but is not a true representation of reality. Evolution guarentees that it cannot be. The amount of energy needed to perceive real reality would be a huge waste. Your perception is evolved so that your “hack” into reality is better than the “hack” of what you want to eat or what wants to eat you. Humans may not even have the capacity to understand reality. Thus, trying to expain the universe by using what we are able to perceive is like trying to explain what is happening in a computer by what you see on the screen. The screen represents reality, but it is not. It is your “human interface” because you cannot communicate with the true reality of the computer.
You are absolutely right. I did not make the original connection to Plato, but that is the exactly the cave. So bascially 300 years of modern scientific thought have got us back to where the (fudge-packing) Greek philosophers were 3000 years ago.