The proposed method is wasteful in terms of energy spent to get an answer, specifically in this step : ‘ sum the whole range of possible sizes‘, even with approximations and clever algo

Perception is much more economical as it’s done via memorized heuristics that restrict the search space very quickly.

As a rule of thumb, If your method requires many iterations to converge on some minimum it’s a wrong method to model perception. Brain doesn’t solve a mathematical optimization problem.