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How Magicians Trick Your Brain: The Philosophy of Magic

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In this YouTube video, "How Magicians Trick Your Brain," it shows how not only how magicians know how to fool their audience, but how ones brain fools them as well in the process. I connected it to the topic we talked about in class the top down processing. Our brain is using top down processing because as the videos shows the coin trick, from prior knowledge and experience ones brain doesn't even realize the passing of the coin thats right in front of there eyes and actually believes it appeared in the magicians hand when really the magician passes the coin into the other hand. The brain uses the top down processing and believes magicians will actually pull the coin from behind ones ear or have it magically appear in their hand, so it doesn't acknowledge whats actually going on. It's perception is based off prior knowledge and experience using the top down processing and I found that that processing plays a big role in how magicians are successful to pull off their tricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86kp10cboOQ

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