The world is complex, not just noisy
Romain Brette · 2018
To deny that human perception is optimal is not to claim that it is suboptimal. Rahnev & Denison point out that optimality is often ill-defined. The fundamental issue is framing perception as a statistical inference problem. Outside the lab, the real perceptual challenge is to determine the lawful structure of the world, not variables of a predetermined statistical model.