What is magic?

Magic is defined as an extremely unexpected result that is achieved deliberately by the magician.

Here I will show that magic is nothing but trickery.

Here are many ways to perform "magic":

• Magic tricks:

  The magician is deceiving the audience by misleading his attention. While the audience is focused on something else, the magician is doing the magic.

• Self fulfilling prophecy:

  When you believe the prophecy, you make actions that make it happen.

• Random predictions:

  For a group of 800 people, predict A for 400 and not A (the opposite) for the other 400.

  Now you made true prediction for 400 people. Divide this group to 2 groups of 200 people and repeat the procedure. After 5 iterations, you will have a group of 25 people who believe that your predictions will always come true.  (bible code)

• Brain correlation:

  The brain is a neural network that finds correlations on its sensory input. we tend to remember correlated data and ignore non correlated input data. This way the magician does "magic": when the magic succeeds, you remember it and when it fails you forget it.

• Clever Hans:

  Clever Hans was a horse who seemed to be able to solve arithmetic exercises.

• Hypnosis (healing):

  When the healer is hypnotizing you to believe and feel what he wants.

• Placebo effect:

  A sick person can get well faster, by drinking sugar water.

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See also

• Who was clever Hans?
• What is the placebo effect?
• Do black cats bring bad luck?
• Is astrology real or fake?
• Can people predict the future?
• Is mind reading possible?