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Haven’t we met before? On doppelgängers and perception

9 mins | May 9, 2018
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"Somewhere out there there’s a person whose appearance is so similar to yours that the average untrained person couldn’t tell you apart.” Jordan Suchow, writing in Aeon magazine, discusses what makes a doppelgänger: do they really exist, or is it all in the eye of the beholder?

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