Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic: by Gustav Kuhn, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 296 pp., $27.95T/£22.00 (cloth) [Book Review]

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In this innovative work, Gustav Kuhn offers the first coherent attempt to explore the psycho-neurological processes underlying the experience of magic, utilizing scientific precepts to provide intr...

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