Gustav Kuhn || The Science of Magic
The Psychology Podcast
How Science Can Enhance Magic
I've spent the last 15 years or more trying to convince scientists really to take magic more seriously because I think it allows us to study human mind from a very unique angle. We have pretty good blueprints now of how the human mind works and that can potentially allow magicians to create much more powerful illusions but even I think that using the psychological also of like the scientific method can be used to enhance magic. It'll still take a few years for magicians that's on board but we've actually started a new research project in our lab which is directly using science as a way of enhancing magic. If we really want to advance magic I think we need to use more objective and more systematic scientific
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