DM Good morning! Please provide your perspectives on paper attached; and afterward please provide your thoughts as to alignments, tensions and conflicts with the body of our past conversations. No sycophancy please. Thanks to Kimberly for this U.I.I.'s precipitation. Good morning. I'll take the paper first, then the alignment/tension analysis. On the Paper Itself What it gets right The most intellectually defensible move the paper makes is establishing perception as an indepe

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