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Reality can be inconvenient. It is hardly surprising, then, that we try to replace it with something more to our liking.
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© 2012 David W. Kidner
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Kidner, D.W. (2012). How the Mind Took Over the World. In: Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391369_5
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