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All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.