Magic and the Brain: "Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world," says Macknik, lead author of the paper. "Even when we know we're going to be tricked, we still can't see it, which suggests that magicians are fooling the mind at a very deep level." By reverse-engineering these deceptions"

the brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like

Those two are national treasures, lol. I love em.

Thanks einbar, that was real good.

They used to do the cup and ball trick here a lot. It is good to see how it works. I've seen people lose a LOT of money.