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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“What it shows is just how much of the picture in our head of our surroundings is a massive construction, based on expectations, what we think is important, what we normally encounter and so on. And that's what magicians are very good at exploiting.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“social contract for disaster”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“If he passed himself off as having psychic abilities, he wouldn't be half as successful,”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“According to the results of our experience, unfortunately I cannot confirm that Skibbereen is the luckiest town. It was absolutely no different to Dublin.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We had about 40,000 jokes sent in by people all over the world. Here is my favourite.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“[The last time an experiment of this type was attempted, Wiseman said, was in 1971 at a Grateful Dead concert, when an image was projected on a screen above the frenetic crowd and two professional psychics tried to receive it.] One did well and guessed it, ... the other didn't.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“What his research seems to be saying is that women are the laughers and men get the laughs.”

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