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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Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience—and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it.
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