[milesvp]

Not really. Fundamentally all he's saying is that there is a huge benefit from seeing distortions to reality. If you prcieved all threats in a red outline as you walked down the street, you'd be better able to avoid them.

You can also look at data display problems the same way. Take a height map of the world, and just blindly use a rainbow mapping, and you won't be able to see sea level. But if you pick two color spectrums, say, beige and blue, and suddenly it pops out.

He's basically saying that it makes sense for our brain to lie to use fir the same reason; some data is too valuable to not stand out to us. And this holds for any given organism.