Mark Mitton Magician Mark Mitton is a magician who is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. He performs magic and produces unique entertainment around the world, and explores the limits and potential of perception. Mark’s specialty is physical misdirection, or what some call “embodied cognition”. He regularly presents on ‘Perception & Deception’ at universities and conferences. He studied economics at Haverford College, and then became the apprentice to legendary sleight-of-hand master Slydini. For many years, he discussed and presented with the late Dr. Gerald Edelman on the essence of emergence in natural selective processes such as immune response and communication. Participant In: “Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »
“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »