I think he is conflating two kinds of discourse in his presentation; our discourse about what is manifest versus scientific discourse.

Manifest images such as the sun rising and setting are important to how we conduct our lives, when things need to done and so on. The scientific image is constructed based on what is observed, it explains that the earth rotates on it axis as it revolves around the sun which explains why we see what we see. The scientific explanation has its own important utility.

But what we experience is reality...the data...our interpretation of that data involves abstractions which are useful until they are no longer useful. Not all scientific explanations stand up over time.