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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions | Stephen L Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde
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"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield it will also change the way you think about the mind." Jonah Lehrer, author of "How We Decide" and "Proust Was A Neuroscientist "Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable a good magician uses your mind's own intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu. Now magic can reveal how our brains work in everyday situations. For instance, if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn you'd never buy, the salesperson was probably a master at creating the "illusion of choice," a core technique of magic. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education. "Sleights of Mind" makes neuroscience fun and accessible by unveiling the key connections between magic and the mind."
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"Magicians understand at a deeply intuitive level that you alone create your experience of reality, and they exploit the fact that your brain does a staggering amount of outright confabulation in order to contruct the mental simulation of reality known as "consciousness." This is not to say that objective reality isn't "out there' in a very real sense. But all you get to experience is a simulation."

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"Have you ever had a boss who made a dumb decision that became immutable policy long after she realized she had been wrong? Cognitive dissonance. Have you yourself ever made a dumb decision concerning your children, but then stuck to your guns so as to "provide consistency"? Cognitive dissonance..."

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"Magicians love cognitive dissonance, since it leads spectators to feel as though they've made decisions freely for themselves... When you make a decision between two things that seem equivalent, cognitive disonance frequently comes into play. You elevate the value of your choice for the simple reason that it was your choice."

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"Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. By understanding how magicians hack our brains, we can better understand how the same cognitive tricks are at work in advertising strategy, business negotiations, and all varieties of interpersonal relations. When we understand how magic is in the mind of the spectator, we will have unveiled the neural bases of consciousness itself."

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Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains | Sandra Blakeslee, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik
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Both fascinating reads!!!

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