Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik (Nov 9 2010) Cover
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Sleights of Mind What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik (Nov 9 2010)

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StarTalk Radio

It was co-authored with Stephen Macknik and discussed how the human mind is a flawed data processor, which is essential for magic to exist, as mentioned by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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You co-authored a book called Slites of Mind. You co-authored it with Stephen Mechnick. Is that correct?

— Episode: The Science of Illusion with Penn & Tell...

Episode: The Science of Illusion with Penn & Teller

It was co-authored with Stephen Macknik and discussed how the human mind is a flawed data processor, which is essential for magic to exist, as mentioned by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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You co-authored a book called Slites of Mind. You co-authored it with Stephen Mechnick. Is that correct?

Stephen and Susanna persistently remind us that the human mind is a bad data-taking device. And it's this fact that enables the science of magic to exist at all.

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