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Teller Reveals His Secrets

jtotheizzoe:

Have magicians been inadvertently studying neuroscience for ages? Teller, of Penn & Teller, weighs in:

“Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience? A magician’s data sample spans centuries, and his experiments have been replicated often enough to constitute near-certainty. Neuroscientists—well intentioned as they are—are gathering soil samples from the foot of a mountain that magicians have mapped and mined for centuries.”

Fascinating read!

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    Fascinating read!
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    in: “Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold,...
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    Fascinating article. Worth 5 minutes of your time.