My brain is flawed. It is a flawed lens through which I see reality. This is true of both mouse brains and human brains. But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them. This, in practice, makes the lens far more powerful. Not perfect, but far more powerful.
Take our zero-risk bias for example. This is our preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.
It plays to our desire to have complete control over a single, more minor outcome, compared to the desire for more — but not complete — control over a greater, more unpredictable outcome.
We are strange and imperfect organisms as we seem to prefer large decreases in small risks to small decreases in large ones, even when the overall benefit of the latter ......