I was reading Boing Boing today - THIS post in particular. It’s a video of Keith Barry, a.k.a. the Druid Master who has been selling out shows and freaking out journalists in Toronto lately.
At the beginning of the video, Keith tries to show people how easy it is to deceive the brain with a simple hand trick. You’ll be fooled, too, unless you notice the point where he pulls his hands apart. At about the 5:31 minute mark, Keith has this to say, in reference to a car stunt he pulls off in the video:
“A lot of people try to come up with a logical solution to what just happened. But because your brains are not trained in the art of deception, the solutions that you come up with will be 99% of the time way off the mark.This is because magic is all about directing attention. If for instance, I didn’t want you to look at my right hand, then I don’t look at it. But if I wanted you to look at my right hand, then I look at it, too. It’s very simple once you know how, but very complicated in other ways. “
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