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Today, my guest is writer and magician Kevin Ferguson.
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SHOW NOTES:
MIN 1:00
Kevin’s start in magic
MIN 4:00
What is possible (learning magic)
Min 5:30the Magician the tricks that have most stumped Kevin: Derek Brown
- Reading minds, predicting the future,
(no stooges)
MIN 7:00
magic as Psychological
MIN 9:00 Hypnotic techniques
faith healers
Deception and influence
MIN 10:00
ARTICLE:
Should we have a Science of Magic? Kevin’s latest piece in @NautilusMag: http://go.nautil.us/magic_psych
Magic as a Science
Gustav Kuhn
Psychology and Magic and the Brain
How beliefs form or are manipulated.
MIN 12
Eye tracking
Limits of attention
How beliefs are formed
Agency and choice
Events the violate causality / magical thinking
MIN 14:30
Prayer
Looking for patterns
Placebo effect and hypnosis
Assassin episode
A man is hypnotized to murder someone in a theatre.
MIN 17:30
Who is susceptible?
Did they truly believe it was real or just play along?
MIN 18:00
Based on Robert Kennedy assassination case.
MIN 20:00
In Kevin’s opinion, can hypnotized people do something against their morals?
MIN 22:30
What is the hypnosis state actually and measurably?
MIN 25:30
You have to believe you will be hypnotize.
MIN 28:00
Learning from the Science and art of Magic to understand mental disorders and childhood states of wonder.
MIN 29:30
Bringing wonder (or unsolvable puzzle) in the present to adults which is what children have all the time.
MIN 32:30
Performing magic for analytical audiences.
MIN 34:00
Performing Magic in different cultural settings. Card tricks for Japanese.
MIN 36:00
People who believe the magic is real and Kevin has really supernatural powers and the ethical dilemma that presents.
MIN 38:00
Once all mystery is gone. Shallow and throw away knowledge.
MIN 40:30
Never make an iPhone disappear.
MIN 42:30