Seeing the difference

οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἵνα πράττωμεν ἀλλὰ καὶ μηθὲν μέλλοντες πράττειν τὸ ὁρα̂ν αἱρούμεθα ἀντὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπει̂ν τω̂ν ἄλλων.αἴτιον δ' ὅτι μάλιστα ποιει̂ γνωρίζειν ἡμα̂ς αὕτη τω̂ν αἰσθήσεων καὶ πολλὰς δηλοι̂ διαφοράς .

(Aristotle, Metaphysics 1.980a)

The notion being that always, whether we plan on doing something or not, of all the senses we prefer seeing because "it helps make clear (evident) most differences."
I won't dispute whether indeed sight is our most discerning sense. Intuition would seem to agree with this. The thing that fascinates me, though is Aristotle using "seeing the difference" as grounds for superiority or at least for preference. Seeing the difference means breaking the world objects in pieces in order to understand it/them. Keeping lists of the pieces we broke the world objects into, readily available for comparison and for observing the things things have in common just as we note what keeps them apart. I can see how seeing differences might be an evolutionary advantage (is this red berry just like that other red berry Bob ate the other day and died?) or an evolutionary handicap: "to be or not to be" mused the young, wise prince who was going to die young, wise, childless.