Derren Brown Interview (2/6) - Richard Dawkins
This is the full uncut interview filmed for the Channel 4 TV program "The Enemies of Reason." This video is provided free online by http://RichardDawkins.net . If you enjoy the video and...
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Brown: As to what the teachers are teaching I can only imagine that the teachers who have, maybe more media savvy, more sort of career psychics and mediums are very aware of what's going on and aware of what the tricks are. It's difficult to tell, but yes. Dawkins: I've heard it suggested that sometimes these rather lucrative acts that people put on of psychic divination and things often start off as a type of folis a deux, that somebody and his partner or his father or something kind of manage to convince each other that they can do something that they can't and they sort of rev each other up. Then when they realize that they're not as good as they thought, each one tries to help the other one because they in some sense genuinely ...
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Brown: As to what the teachers are teaching I can only imagine that the teachers who have, maybe more media savvy, more sort of career psychics and mediums are very aware of what's going on and aware of what the tricks are. It's difficult to tell, but yes. Dawkins: I've heard it suggested that sometimes these rather lucrative acts that people put on of psychic divination and things often start off as a type of folis a deux, that somebody and his partner or his father or something kind of manage to convince each other that they can do something that they can't and they sort of rev each other up. Then when they realize that they're not as good as they thought, each one tries to help the other one because they in some sense genuinely ...
