Its how the chimp brain works. Its not a single system but multiple systems making predictions for different time horizons. when output doesnt align we get stories to manufacture coherence.

Plato gave us his Chariot analogy with 2 horse pulling in diff directions 3000 years ago. Today we got System 1/System 2, Elephant Rider model etc.

The human mind thanks to how its own architecture handles unpredictability in the universe will generate contadictions.