We thank the reviews for their hard work, enlightening comments and positive feedback, appreciating the novelty and

R3: "Unveiling these principles is a fundamental Hereafter, we respond to the reviewers' individual comments. R1: The assumption that patch likelihood is appropriately measured could use some more justification. This, in turn, allows likelihood evaluation [22]. R1: There could be more examples of similar phenomena explained by the model. Our paper focuses on a variety of lightness/color illusions, which "share some inherent properties, but are This is a major future direction.