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One of the ways we interact with other human beings and form social bonds is through touch, and probably most of us are not aware of the extreme importance of touch.

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.

Touching people is very rewarding to me.

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.

Everything you touch touches you.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.