How Magicians Use Cognitive Science

Just a link. In today’s issue of Swiss weekly “Sonntagszeitung” there is a piece “Magie im Kopf” on the cognitive science behind legerdemains. How magicians make use of our brain’s wrong predictions to trick us. Because I am reading OnIntelligece by Jeff Hawkins I was reminded on his idea of human intelligence as the ability of the brain to predict things without acutally seeing them.

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