> No you don't; a map is not the territory, and is necessarily wrong, which means that if you had such a model and were actually relying on it you wouldn't be able to do things you obviously can do in real life.

What are you talking about, a world model doesn't need to be perfect, nobody said humans has a perfect world model just that we have a world model.

Yes we update the model and adjust when it is wrong, but we still have a world model we use to plan out actions before we do them. I can very accurately predict all the events that will happen when I cook food, how the water will flow etc, sometimes things go wrong and I adjust and fix, but there is no way I could cook food if I didn't have that world model to plan out actions.

> This is a longstanding critique of GOFAI; see Hubert Dreyfuss and Phil Agre.

They don't even mention world model there, I think you are talking about something completely different. No, the mental model humans have of the world isn't the real world, we know that, it is a model of the world, ie a world model. A model isn't the real thing, that is why we call it a model.