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    It is not the case that If heuristics succeed precisely by ignoring available information rather than processing it under constraint, the optimization framework mischaracterizes the mechanism of bounded rationality.

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    • 1.Ignoring information is itself a constraint-satisfaction strategy; optimization frameworks can model selective attention as cost-benefit tradeoff.
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    • 2.The claim conflates mechanisms (what heuristics do) with characterization (how we model them); both could describe the same bounded process.
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    • 3.Empirical success via ignorance doesn't prove optimization models mischaracterize—it shows which constraints matter, refining rather than refuting frameworks.
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    • 1.Ecological rationality shows heuristics outperform complex models by discarding noise, not merely processing under computational limits.
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    • 2.Optimization frameworks assume agents process available data; heuristics' success via selective ignorance contradicts this core assumption.
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    • 3.Fast-and-frugal trees succeed precisely because they ignore correlates; optimization frameworks cannot account for beneficial information rejection.
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