But human minds are constantly exploiting known regularities of the environment (by making assumptions) to make better inferences.
Not just by making assumptions: you can learn (domain-specific) optimizations that don’t introduce new info, but improve ability, allowing to understand more from the info you have (better conceptual pictures for natural science; math).
Not just by making assumptions: you can learn (domain-specific) optimizations that don’t introduce new info, but improve ability, allowing to understand more from the info you have (better conceptual pictures for natural science; math).