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Why you need to touch your keys to believe they’re in your bag

8 mins | Dec 21, 2017

Do you need to touch something in order to know it? Ophelia Deroy, writing in Aeon magazine, looks at the physicality of belief, from reaching for your keys to being misled by virtual reality.

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