Is There a Process of Inference in Perception?

An emerging idea s actually a very old idea. It goes back to helm holtz in the nineteenth century, but even further back,. Some arabic thinkers a long time, is the idea that perception is a process of inference. And so a lot of current work is going into figuring out whether this is actually something the brain does. But independentlyof hat question, this computational framework of inference provides a rich set of tools for mapping phenomenology on to mechanism.