All technologies need an interface to the human. Interfaces work on a trade-off between truth and control, essential for us to navigate our world. In exchange, our technologies shape our reality.

"Western scientists have created an artifact: in our efforts to study emotions in an elemental way, we have created an experimental method that has strong but hidden context effects. It produces a psychological model that is intellectually pleasing but it has little to do with reality." - Feldman Barret et al.

The streetlight effect is not contained in fundamental physics, or even science, it is everywhere.. It is may be the defining characteristic of our era.