By Vebjørn Ekroll — 2017
Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception.
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CLEAR ALL
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.