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#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik, PhD & Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
Is the Unconscious Good at Doing Its Job?
Is the unconscious good at doing its job here, or is it just taking too many short cuts to the point where it's also liable to make all these same mistakes and its guesses are constantly wrong? Say that in a magic show in particular, it is probably the case that you can try too hard to find out what the magic method is. And that can be kind of productive. Well, not only because you are not going to enjoy the show as much if youe just trying to figure out what the magician is doing instead of appreciate the art. We know that from anoral standpoint, when you focus your attention on something, what you're actually doing is you'r suppressing everything else
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