So this meta-problem, which I've been pushing recently, opens up a tractable empirical research program for everyone, reductionists, non-reductionists, illusionists , non-illusionists . We can try to solve it and then think about the philosophical consequences.Now what is the meta-problem?
Like I said, this is a big research program. The illusionist has solved the meta-problem.
Like I said, this is a big research program. The illusionist will come back and say, yes, but I can explain why illusionism is unbelievable.
And today I'm going to show you some of the secrets behind creating magic. Cyber illusionist , what does that mean? It means I combine magic and science to create illusions.
Dick shot all of Mike Lee's films. He did "The Illusionist ." I did "The Illusionist " with him. And honestly, "The Illusionist " is a lot of fun.
Because in a noir film, you're going to get lost. Just like in "The Illusionist ," you're like, wait, what is going on? The mistake is thinking that adult audiences want to be ahead of a movie.
Like I said, this is a big research program. If you were an illusionist , they'll be false models.
Thank you very much for coming to my short presentation. I am a cyber illusionist . And today I'm going to show you some of the secrets behind creating magic.
That's my time. It is my true pleasure to introduce the next artist, and he's making huge waves over at the Shaftesbury Theatre in The Illusionists , and it's a pure pleasure spending time with him. You'll be seeing him on your television soon and touring live.
Not the sort of thing you normally admit to at a public event, but I notice about eight of you perked up there. It's called "The Illusionists 1903." And that's a completely different cast.
And I confess, I've got some sympathy with that reaction. So I'm not an illusionist myself. I'm a realist about consciousness in the philosopher's sense, where a realist about something is someone who believes that thing is real.
can explain. And then we can come back and look at the philosophical consequences. So I'm not an illusionist . I think consciousness is real.
Like I said, this is a big research program. But even if you're not an illusionist about consciousness, there ought to be some link.
and kept calling my partner Michelle and saying, have you made it to chapter whatever yet? I also really loved working on "The Illusionist " with Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti.
It's almost infuriating how good she is at this stuff. But everyone should listen to "The Illusionist " and "Answer Me This." Those are a couple favorites. So I've heard you say that podcasts are more intimate than listening to the radio.
Not the sort of thing you normally admit to at a public event, but I notice about eight of you perked up there. So you're on the show "The Illusionists ." Perhaps you could tell us about the show and how you got involved in it.
He did "The Illusionist ." I did "The Illusionist " with him. And honestly, "The Illusionist " is a lot of fun. I think 70% of the reason it works is Dick's photography and Philip Glass's score.
It's roughly an illusion thrown up by having a weird kind of self model with a certain kind of algorithm that attributes to ourselves special properties that we don't have. So one line on the meta-problem is the illusionist line. Solve the meta-problem, you'll get to treat consciousness as an illusion.
Not the sort of thing you normally admit to at a public event, but I notice about eight of you perked up there. And the producers put together these genres-- they brought an illusionist , and they brought a comedy act, and they brought a mentalist, and a manipulator,
Like I said, this is a big research program. One thing I like about this summary is you can read it in either an illusionist tone of voice, as an account of the illusion of consciousness--
to narrative story style shows. And so she started this one on word usage and etymology called "The Illusionist ," and I love that one. And so every other week, it's "Answer Me This" or "The Illusionist " and I always get to hear from Helen.
So, one, two, three-- Ooh, OK. This is clear. He's an illusionist .
But if we look at creative practice as a form of research, or art as a form of R and D for humanity, then how could a cyber illusionist like myself share his research? Now my own specialty is combining digital technology and magic.
So that's one color when it's reflective. And it's also in reference to for a long time paintings been about making illusionistic space like landscapes or the figure
life and you don't usually consider. This is a drawing called "Hollywood". It's from a series called Paper Drawings that he did in the 70s, and so it looks like ribbons of paper. It's all completely illusionistic. He's incredibly skilled as a draftsman, but he was able to do it so that it looks as if he kind of set up this paper and then did the drawing of it, but it's all out of his imagination. Hollywood, California from around the same period. Another Hollywood Dream Bubble Popped, this is one of my favorites. It's
You can pitch us onto Radiotopia ones. Well, the newest one in Radiotopia is one called "The Illusionist " by Helen Zaltzman. Some fans here. And Helen has done this podcast called "Answer Me This" with Olly Mann for eight years, and it's so funny.
And so she started this one on word usage and etymology called "The Illusionist ," and I love that one. And so every other week, it's "Answer Me This" or "The Illusionist " and I always get to hear from Helen. And she's just a gem of a human being and just really, really funny.
That's what goes on for you guys out there. And then, there's what goes on in the mind of cyber illusionists if he does something as simple as a trick with playing cards. So, I rigged up this contraption, which hopefully will give you a glimpse.
so put your questions in the YouTube chat for our guest. Our guest Derren Brown is a best-selling author, broadcaster, unique performer, and a psychological illusionist . He's been delighting and baffling audiences here in the UK and around the world for over 20 years.
Like I said, this is a big research program. whether these models are correct, as the realist says, or incorrect, as the illusionist says.
Like I said, this is a big research program. But maybe I could just wrap up with two expressions of absurdity on either side of this question, the illusionist and the anti-illusionist , both finding absurdity
Perhaps you're noticing feelings of anger, of disappointment, shame perhaps, or maybe guilt or regret or fear. So the reality is, is that we're great-- a brain, like I said, it's a master illusionist .
an illusion. It's a basic problem about our objective functioning in these reports. What explains those? There's a neutral research program here that both realists, illusionists , people of all kinds of different views of consciousness can explain. And then we can come back and look at the philosophical consequences.
My name's Rob Leworthy. I'm one of the co-leads here with Christina, and I'm very pleased to welcome Colin Cloud and Dave Williamson from "The Illusionists ," which is playing just over the road at the Shaftesbury Theatre until January 3.
to notice just how similar they are to the 20th Century Fox image. It's the same, basic compositional format, so the, the very strong diagonal. This is called Standard Station with Cheap Western Torn in Half, so up in the corner, that's a very precise, illusionistic rendition of a comic book torn in half. So he's got this very literal way of titling his pictures, kind of surreal, but having a lot of fun with it, of great sense of humor
Cyber illusionist , what does that mean? It means I combine magic and science to create illusions. Arthur C. Clark said that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That is true and we magicians have known this for over two thousand years.