Thursday, September 22, 2011

Does magic lead to brain power?

Keith Barry talks about how the brain works, and how basic some things can be but due to the brain magic that he does you can see that he makes it so you can read the persons eyes, which makes your brain process.


It intrigued me to see that learning how people think leads to the same process to everybody.Also the skills he had to make people believe that they were being touched but really he was just moving around that person which made their brains think they were being touched and they actually felt it. The questions i would have if i were in the audience would be what things in the brain make everybody think the same because there are some part where everyone HAS to think differently. I wonder how he could make people feel like they are in a daze but in reality it is just the way the persons brain functions. The most brought up question from the audience was "how can somebody just be read so easily by looking at that person?". I feel the magic of the brain is brought to you by the way your senses are. If you are uptight your senses are harder to read them when you are relaxed. He also proves that when he has simple tasks the reader follows the directions but doesn't realize there is a much easier way for the task to be done. For you as the reader, do you believe that the human brain is functioned by the way your mind tells it to? Why or why not? Do you believe that the human brain has a way to be hypnotized into believing what one tells you?