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Luis M Martínez

Neuroscientist and Author , Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante

Luis M Martínez is a neuroscientist at the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante. He is the co-author, with Jordi Camí, of The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic (Princeton, 2022). He lives in Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain.

Written by Luis M Martínez

Photo of a man in a suit sitting in a dimly lit room with a shattered blue screen on a wooden wall behind him.

The nature of reality

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For neuroscience, magic opens a doorway to multiple realities

The transition in magic from possible to impossible can answer some of the key questions in philosophy and neuroscience

by Luis M Martínez & Jordi Camí