@XXSpadeMasterXX,
That's the whole problem with science and very nicely phrased.
That our readings off instruments describe actuality is a myth. Because we can use our readings off instruments to manipulate actuality to our advantage, or so we hope, does not mean we can understand its nature. Even to say it has a nature is anthropomorphic. That is at our "own discretion".
The only evidence we have about actuality, which doesn't know it's called actuality, is that our scientific measurements can be used to manipulate it. Which does not prove, nor come within sight of proving, that we know anything about it.
Thus we are describing ourselves. Some philosophers would say just our intelligence. And leave the carnal stuff to the Darwinians.
Hence monastic askesis.