Teller, Apollo Robbins, many others in NYTimes Today

[NCMarsh]

Sleight of Mind

[NCMarsh]

More on the symposium (which looks like it was very good): http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com/ind ... &PAGE_id=7

[Bob Baker]

Nice to see Miser's Dream exposed with clear, helpful, full color photographs in The New York Times.

[Guest]

Yes, but exposed with a beautiful, striking message, like most of Penn and Teller's "exposures".

[Guest]

It's always good to go beyond the pretty color photographs and read the text of a newspaper article.

For example. I found Teller's definition of magic to be stunningly articulate.

The theatrical linking of a cause with an effect that has no basis in physical reality, but that in our hearts ought to.


Noah

[Guest]

Wonderful article about the subjectivity of experience and our willful (or sentimental) projection of norms and causality onto what we perceive.

If you take Teller's beautiful definition of our craft and then recall Shakespeare's line about the world being a stage... you can get something close to the older definition of magic.