Because human brains aren’t supposed to be able to do emotional and mental parkour like completely redirecting our focus on a new topic in under a second without prior warning.
Evolution, last time I checked, selects for stuff that a species regularly does on a very long timescale. We have not had telephones invented for long enough for them to be relevant to the way our brain evolved
For what it’s worth, we haven’t had doors much longer relative to how long our brains have been evolving. The time between doors and telephones is a hiccup in comparison.
citation needed lol
Evolution, last time I checked, selects for stuff that a species regularly does on a very long timescale. We have not had telephones invented for long enough for them to be relevant to the way our brain evolved
For what it’s worth, we haven’t had doors much longer relative to how long our brains have been evolving. The time between doors and telephones is a hiccup in comparison.
Doors don’t require much brain power to operate, though