Modeling and simulation are not inherent in the experience of a computer. For humans, the overriding experience of S-R, present from birth without learning a thing, forces modeling to be a part of our reality.
Model creation is implicit in the process of S-R learning, it's through processes of S-S learning that models become distinct and consciously accessible. S-S introduces modes in which parts of our general S-R model can be perceived as partially self-contained. It sheds light on a portion of an existing, massive soup of a model.
See Common ground between people and machines