
Penn Jillette
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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Is There a Thing About Magic?
"I've been thinking about this a lot lately is there's this thing that's very popular. whenever Shrinks and like, you know, science people want to talk about magic," he says. "They always say it shows up the flaws in our thinking. And that is such bullshit... What magic does is it underlies how well our thinking works." He continues: "It really is a celebration of this kind of intellect and how we determine what's correct, you know?"
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