Imagine you wake up in the cockpit of an alien spaceship. You realize you must fly it.
All around you are gauges and buttons and controls and screens with data on them, and objects and devices that look like nothing you've ever seen. You begin to explore the guages and readouts to make sense of what you're working with.
Over time, you figure some out. There's a screen showing what's in front of you (easy), there's a radar with nearby objects, something that seems to show radiation levels (working with intuition and experience). You begin to pilot the ship and explore your environment using the data you've figured out.
As you explore your environment, your understanding of the other data and devices begins to grow. Through experimentation and feedback from your environment you begin to unlock new tools for exploring it.
But there are still plenty of devices and screens you have no idea about, and odds are even devices and tools that you don't even know exist as you don't recognize them as such.
Many of these tools are effecting your ability and behavior in flying the ship without you even knowing it. Data coming from sensors is being handled intelligently by the ships computer systems and helping you navigate the area. The tools you are using actively are essential to guiding the ship, but the tools you are using without knowledge are just as important and hold the keys to interacting fully with the environment.
Imagine you are a human baby waking up in a body for the first time...