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My wife and I are performing magicians and there are several psychological factors at play here, that magicians exploit routinely. The first has to do with you

My wife and I are performing magicians and there are several psychological factors at play here, that magicians exploit routinely. The first has to do with your brain's talent for recognizing patterns. The world around us is full of information overload, and the brain is exceptionally good at pattern recognition. If it weren't, we would have to scrutinize and analyze every piece of information presented to us as if it were novel. We couldn't function under such situations. The second is called "motion blindness" and it is a physical phenomenon.The idea is that when your eyes are moving you can't perceive that they are moving. You can test this out by looking at yourself in the mirror and then focus on one eye. Then shift your focus to the other. You can feel your eye moving but you can't see it move. It is thought that the brain filters out this motion because otherwise we would feel motion sickness all the time. Add to the fact that objects in motion tend to grab our attention, magicians exploit this by doing secret moves under the cover of something else moving. During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND. So when you're in the Samurai Sword shop in Brighton, what are you focusing on? Obviously the swords. And where are the warning signs located? I'm assuming IN BETWEEN THE SWORDS. They are both background information AND in the exact location where you will be experiencing motion blindness. In the case of the forms that "fooled" your friend into thinking it was asking for money. They look like every other example of something asking for money. Pattern recognition. In the case of ChatGPT's "warning." ... it's fine print that a) looks like a standard copyright notice that we all train ourselves to turn into background information and b) it is right under the text input that contains a flashing cursor and the text that we are typing out ourselves. It is superfluous and in the most psychologically invisible location possible.

IanCal 3y ago
> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND. Not relevant but a fun addition - you then make up what you saw as though there wasn't just a big blank gap in your vision. When you look at an analogue clock sometimes it seems like the second hand is still for far too long, that's because your brain (or eyes or somewhere on the journey between I'm not sure) is filling in the gap incorrectly. For magic, not only will you be blind for part of this then you will experience it like you were aware of everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
dboreham 3y ago
You know that a post beginning "My wife and I are performing magicians" is going to be good.
Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND. There was a video I saw recently that exploited this, and it was WILD. I can't find it right now, but basically, they showed how blind you were while your eyes darted around. They had people look at a picture on a computer screen while some device monitored their eye movement. Whenever their eyes moved, an object in the picture would vanish or change. Nobody was ever able to detect an object vanishing or changing. It wasn't until they would be like "Wait a minute, wasn't there a person there?" or they were shown the original picture with all the objects in place that they would notice the picture was changing at all.
- pixl97 3y ago
  >I can't find it right now, NOVA: Perception deception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4 Pretty much our brains are liars shoveling a bullshit reality at us every moment of the day. It's amazing we've got as far as we have, and it's amazing that many of these things are pretty recent discoveries in human history.
- ben_w 3y ago
  The two I'm most fond of are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM&t=104s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM&t=104s And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA

IanCal 3y ago

> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND. Not relevant but a fun addition - you then make up what you saw as though there wasn't just a big blank gap in your vision. When you look at an analogue clock sometimes it seems like the second hand is still for far too long, that's because your brain (or eyes or somewhere on the journey between I'm not sure) is filling in the gap incorrectly. For magic, not only will you be blind for part of this then you will experience it like you were aware of everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis

dboreham 3y ago

You know that a post beginning "My wife and I are performing magicians" is going to be good.

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago

> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND. There was a video I saw recently that exploited this, and it was WILD. I can't find it right now, but basically, they showed how blind you were while your eyes darted around. They had people look at a picture on a computer screen while some device monitored their eye movement. Whenever their eyes moved, an object in the picture would vanish or change. Nobody was ever able to detect an object vanishing or changing. It wasn't until they would be like "Wait a minute, wasn't there a person there?" or they were shown the original picture with all the objects in place that they would notice the picture was changing at all.

pixl97 3y ago
>I can't find it right now, NOVA: Perception deception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4 Pretty much our brains are liars shoveling a bullshit reality at us every moment of the day. It's amazing we've got as far as we have, and it's amazing that many of these things are pretty recent discoveries in human history.
ben_w 3y ago
The two I'm most fond of are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM&t=104s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM&t=104s And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA