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  • Cognitive Science
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Decision-Making Research

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  • The literature on rationality and cognition implicitly relies on a specific model of perception and vision.
  • Key figures like Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman built arguments on bounded rationality using a view that assumes perceptual omniscience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critique the pervasive "all-seeing eye" meta-assumption in cognitive and social sciences.
  • To propose an alternative framework for understanding perception and its role in rationality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of foundational works in rationality research, including Herbert Simon's and Daniel Kahneman's.
  • Examination of the use of visual examples and illusions in cognitive science literature.
  • Drawing parallels from vision science and the arts to reframe perception.

Main Results:

  • Identified a problematic "all-seeing eye" assumption that prioritizes objective environmental properties (inverse optics) over the perceiver's nature.
  • Demonstrated how this assumption manifests in research on bounded rationality.
  • Highlighted the limitations of focusing solely on objective visual data.

Conclusions:

  • The current framework of rationality in cognitive and social sciences is built on a flawed perceptual assumption.
  • Advocates for viewing perception as a species-specific "user interface" rather than a direct window to objective reality.
  • Suggests new directions for understanding rationality and decision-making by incorporating a more nuanced view of perception.