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[quote]I would say that the brain is "deceiving you" only if you actually "believe in what happens" rather than wonder "what did I miss".[/quote]Well one of biggest tricks your mind plays on you, is to "lazily" evaluate object permanence.
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[quote]I would say that the brain is "deceiving you" only if you actually "believe in what happens" rather than wonder "what did I miss".[/quote]Well one of biggest tricks your mind plays on you, is to "lazily" evaluate object permanence.
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In our daily lives, we typically look at an object once, and then assume it stays there unless acted upon.
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In our daily lives, we typically look at an object once, and then assume it stays there unless acted upon.
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However, when we turn our back, somebody could just replace that object with a seemingly identical object and we would never know it happened. We would mistake the original object for the replacement.
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However, when we turn our back, somebody could just replace that object with a seemingly identical object and we would never know it happened. We would mistake the original object for the replacement.
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When Descartes makes his Wax argument for rationality it seems he doesn't account for that our reason can be easily deceived like this. https://philosophyalevel.com/posts/descartes-wax-argument/
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When Descartes makes his Wax argument for rationality it seems he doesn't account for that our reason can be easily deceived like this. https://philosophyalevel.com/posts/descartes-wax-argument/
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When he leaves a piece of wax next to the fire and it melts and burns next to the fire, changing form, color and even mass, he assumes it is only by reason we can deduce that it is the same object.
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When he leaves a piece of wax next to the fire and it melts and burns next to the fire, changing form, color and even mass, he assumes it is only by reason we can deduce that it is the same object.
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However, somebody can easily trick our reason by simple replacing the piece of wax with a similar piece of wax when we have our back turned.
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However, somebody can easily trick our reason by simple replacing the piece of wax with a similar piece of wax when we have our back turned.
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Our brain is wired to recognize and memorize human faces so it does analyze faces more rigorously than we do with animals or peas for example. If you look closely, each pea is not the exact same as "two peas in a pod" but have tiny differences among them.
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Our brain is wired to recognize and memorize human faces so it does analyze faces more rigorously than we do with animals or peas for example. If you look closely, each pea is not the exact same as "two peas in a pod" but have tiny differences among them.
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We recognize faces better than feet.
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We recognize faces better than feet.
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If one woman show her whole body, face and feet and all, and then goes into a box to only show her face, while another woman's feet sticks out the other side of the box, we cannot notice that they are different feet because our brain is not wired to recognize and memorize feet, and will lazily evaluate the object permanence of the feet without noticing the differences, even if the women aren't identical twins.
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If one woman show her whole body, face and feet and all, and then goes into a box to only show her face, while another woman's feet sticks out the other side of the box, we cannot notice that they are different feet because our brain is not wired to recognize and memorize feet, and will lazily evaluate the object permanence of the feet without noticing the differences, even if the women aren't identical twins.
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[img]https://imgur.com/zW2SErq.png[/img]
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[img]https://imgur.com/zW2SErq.png[/img]
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We can earmark reality and create something that can only realistically be created and recognized by us.
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We can earmark reality and create something that can only realistically be created and recognized by us.
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We can write on card to make something that is unique and only recognizable by us.
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We can write on card to make something that is unique and only recognizable by us.
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If we write on a card, it is reasonable to assume that only we can reproduce this.
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If we write on a card, it is reasonable to assume that only we can reproduce this.
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This is similar to a hashfunction with a secret key.
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This is similar to a hashfunction with a secret key.
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However, we willingly give away our signed object to the magician.
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However, we willingly give away our signed object to the magician.
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The magician can just obscure our vision and pull a fast one behind our back using our own signed object even if they are unable to duplicate the signed object:
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The magician can just obscure our vision and pull a fast one behind our back using our own signed object even if they are unable to duplicate the signed object:
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f4RBkABMpo4
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f4RBkABMpo4
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Or in this case, infront of our eyes.
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Or in this case, infront of our eyes.
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GoogleFrog:
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GoogleFrog:
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[quote]I think it depends on the specifics of the magic and the distinction will often be a bit nitpicky. If the trick is "clean" in the sense that it couldn't be spotted with the aid of a recording from multiple camera angles, then I'd lean more towards to magician doing the deception. In the other case, if the trick depends on some perceptual error or misremembering exactly how something happened or was worded, then that is more on the brain.[/quote]I learned ventriloquism as a project in high school and watched some lectures with the subject of magic in university.
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[quote]I think it depends on the specifics of the magic and the distinction will often be a bit nitpicky. If the trick is "clean" in the sense that it couldn't be spotted with the aid of a recording from multiple camera angles, then I'd lean more towards to magician doing the deception. In the other case, if the trick depends on some perceptual error or misremembering exactly how something happened or was worded, then that is more on the brain.[/quote]I learned ventriloquism as a project in high school and watched some lectures with the subject of magic in university.
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One of the most important skills in magic and ventriloquism is deception and misdirection.
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One of the most important skills in magic and ventriloquism is deception and misdirection.
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[img]https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marine-Taffou/publication/278827695/figure/fig2/AS:614356219858947@1523485345984/The-ventriloquism-effect-adapted-from-Stein-Meredith-1993-The-ventriloquist.png[/img]
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[img]https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marine-Taffou/publication/278827695/figure/fig2/AS:614356219858947@1523485345984/The-ventriloquism-effect-adapted-from-Stein-Meredith-1993-The-ventriloquist.png[/img]
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The hand really is faster than the eye, if the eye saccades are happening or you perform the swap just a tiny bit away from the fovea where our resolution of reality is low, you can get away with a lot.
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The hand really is faster than the eye, if the eye saccades are happening or you perform the swap just a tiny bit away from the fovea where our resolution of reality is low, you can get away with a lot.
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[img]https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~scottds/vision/rodconemap.jpg[/img]
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[img]https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~scottds/vision/rodconemap.jpg[/img]
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You
just
need
to
be
bold
enough
to
do
it
right
infront
of
your
face!
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I
just
need
to
be
bold
enough
to
do
it
right
infront
of
your
face!
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Look how easy it is to trick you!
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Look how easy it is to trick you!
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You cant even count the number of passes in this video!
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You cant even count the number of passes in this video!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wie4v2YCPQY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wie4v2YCPQY
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Is it your brain deceiving you or it is the magician deceiving you?