Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said: the voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. The famous line captures the sensory confusion of the scene: Isaac's hearing and his touch are giving him contradictory information. The voice is Jacob's; the hands feel like Esau's. He is choosing to trust his touch over his hearing — and the goatskin is designed to deceive exactly that trust. The application: when two senses give contradictory information, the senses are being managed. Isaac's instinct — that voice is wrong — is the right instinct being overridden by the manufactured sensory evidence.

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