Derren Brown Interview (1/6) - Richard Dawkins

[@davidthomas9190]

A meeting of two of my fave people in the world today. Sweet.

[@davidthomas9190]

Really ? I'm guessing you're religious then.

[@RedRiverChannel]

***** Why not, since there is nothing wrong with gay people.

[@kent2305]

David Thomas No, seriously, you sound a little immature. Why should his being religious (if your unnecessary guessing is correct) be any more of a problem than you being atheist.

[@davidthomas9190]

Religion was a concept created by man to control other men. Nothing good in it !

[@davidthomas9190]

kent2305 🤣

[@Netlocd]

"Even if science can't explain everything, what makes you think religion can?" - Richard Dawkins

[@Conography]

What makes you think it can't?

[@LittleVboh]

@@Conography how do humans acquire knowledge in general? With science or with religion? Just think for a moment.

[@Conography]

@@LittleVboh why do you think science hasn't been able to solve the mystery of Consciousness yet? Just think for a moment.

[@LittleVboh]

@@Conography and religion did?

[@Conography]

@@LittleVboh no, religion is, for the most part, a perversion of mystical teachings.

[@dougster701]

My two favourite people. Just needs hitchens there too

[@StopMAGA]

+Dougie “dougster701” Haggerty Sam Harris, while not as great as Hitch, does just fine carrying his torch.

[@dougster701]

+Ben Theredonethat Yeh i do like sam too

[@TheGentGaming]

We'll have to hold a séance and invite Hitch to join us ;)

[@dougster701]

Im sure derren could create that illusion!

[@churde]

i was delighted just now when i discoveered theres an episode on sam harris podcast waking up (spotify)that features derren brown, have fun!

[@ArtoPekkanen]

"I sense you're sitting in a bus going wrong way ... Or maybe ot is a relationship" :D this line made me laugh. Sounded like something you'd put into a comedy sketch show like Little Britain xD

[@henriksrensen5958]

Wow, I'm loving this.👍 Two great minds😊

[@Evienoteevee]

When derren hesitates he does his little head nodding tick thing, so adorable :') They are both awesome people.

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

Nervous tic....

[@tombarnes155]

I saw Derren Brown a while back in London, at his show infamous. It was brilliant, the way that many separate mildly impressive acts came together to make an absolutely incredible final 5 minutes. Great man.

[@guest1921]

i think this man is more of a psychologist than a magician

[@andybeans5790]

Quite a few modern sciences and professions started off as parlour tricks, electricity was seen as a parlour trick for decades before people started trying other things with it.

[@johnmc3862]

Brown is both. He did close up table magic originally. He is a highly intelligent and perceptive individual.

[@RadagonTheRed]

Deren Brown + Professor Richard Dawkins = Blissful Enlightenment

[@DrunkenPoetic]

This is brilliant. Cheers uploader dude.

[@johnmc3862]

The Richard Dawkins foundation lol.

[@MysticalHydra]

Why are there so many Dawkins interviews where they're standing the entire time?

[@alanastone5241]

Can if they want to.

[@Otozer30]

could have bought another camera for this interview

[@adampearce8708]

And some chairs wouldn't go astray too.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

When 2 awesome persons meet :) Very interesting interview.

[@BrandonKinross]

I love how Richard is innocently asking for answers. And Derren is doing his best to be polite and avoid revealing mentalism/reading secrets.

[@iain2k7]

saw this guy live tonight, spoke to him and got a picture with him too. Best live show ever, I seriously recommend it!

[@Be4zle]

Two very very intelligent people there!

[@M111771]

Does anyone else notice that Derren has a head tic? I notice it in pretty much any video of him but never really hear any mention of it.

[@sinecurea]

M111771 No?

[@M111771]

Stephen Lynn You'll notice it if you know what to look for - just a tiny head nod at random times.

[@dougster701]

He's had loads of tics over the years, I think it's just a side effect of being a very meticulous person :)

[@StopMAGA]

+M111771 How the hell do you see a tic on his head? Is it on his left or right? Did he ever come down with lyme disease?

[@UKR]

+Ben Theredonethat Speaking at a debate at Oxford University with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the man regarded as the world's most famous Atheist states, he is an "agnostic" and has never called himself the world's most famous Atheist because he is clearly agnostic ! watch?v=dfk7tW429E4 P.s. Richard likes word play he uses it like an hegelian dialectic to confuse and steer the outcome in his debates...Like a conjuring trick! There are linguistic Tricks and Master Dawkins knows plenty of them btw

[@norda7881]

great interuiew

[@LackadaisicalE]

wow great upload! An interview w a master of any field about his field is always a treasure to the curious mind!

[@chezXscott]

Am I the only one who LOVES Derren's voice?

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

As long as science has no fundamental understanding of the nature of reality we will have these unscientific ideas put forward. It is not what science can do or explain it is what science cannot explain that is the problem! Science has no understanding of why we have a future that is always uncertain and a past that we can never change. If science could explain this based on reason and mathematics it would help replace these unscientific ideas! 

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

Absolutely , i have experienced many things of a metaphysical nature. EVerything is happening in the 'now' , i have experienced mediumship that did not include cold reading or barnum statements. There is so much going on that most people can't even begin to realise or understand....

[@everyoneswireddifferent1712]

An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory it's because they're thinking in terms of time/motion but once you start thinking in terms of present/stillness this changes.

[@May04bwu]

Sorry but your comment honestly doesn't make much sense to me.

[@lukyspdegaming5422]

EDITED This is in reference to another Richard Dawkins interview of a religious nutjob who basically "cold reads" religious people. I'm not sure if that was your intention An artist theory on.... but well played kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3K2Z6WHqc54npo (edited again because I didn't copy the entire link and only posted half of it)

[@lewisner]

Woo Woo.

[@Sesshounamaru7]

:D Meme magic is real tho... (and the funniest part is that dawkings make it possible)

[@alanastone5241]

Dawkins*

[@anniemoonmaid]

I had some experience of training for psychic development, I was interested in metaphysics.. Subtle energies we have not fully understood as yet, I was in fact sceptical. However, at the end of the course, I had experienced things that really were impossible to explain... No tricks! There are always charlatans but there are secrets in this universe we have yet to label. Keep an open mind I say!

[@kevtb874]

That's amazing! You experienced things that were impossible? Why haven't you informed the world? You could be a billionaire within a year and go down in history as the person who found and proved the supernatural. People could study this and confirm without doubt that yes, it IS truly impossible. You could revolutionise out understanding of physics, humanity, and reality etc. Society as we know it would changed overnight. Holy shit! Or maybe you are one single person who is mistaken..... Hmmmm.

[@anniemoonmaid]

+Kevtb87 well, seeing as you asked....I believe it is inate in all of us. have a look at quantum physics and maybe the impossible is actually possible...I keep an open mind..that seems to be how we get to understand these things. I do recognise there are plenty of people who will lie and steal from others, but there are others that want to help by offering their well intentioned energies, which is pretty powerful.

[@craighicksartwork]

@@kevtb874 What to see the impossible? Go and do a high dose of psychedelics. There, I've given you the secret to the supernatural and impossible. Let me know how it goes.

[@Netlocd]

Yes, it was during a debate; although, for the life of me, I can NOT remember exactly which debate it was from.

[@nicksully6663]

The barnum statements experiment / reading experiment Derren did just shows how almost-identical we all are. But yet people often think 'oh that's a me thing!', any time you think or do something you think is unique to you, you can bet that probably 95% of others think or do the exact same. So, even this within itself, if you know this, you could fake being 'physic' quite easily by just thinking of inner thoughts or fears or ambitions you have, then just say them to someone else like you know it's true of them, and it'll feel like you're reading them

[@orth82]

Richard Dawkins + Derren Brown = doubly brilliant!! :) Thanks for posting this.

[@cdhanks]

Nope, dead is dead, no conversation is possible.

[@alanastone5241]

The late Colin Fry used this a lot.

[@TheLogic1010]

Love it, good sense of humor, it's a pity there isn't more of it on youtube!

[@superkevy11]

two of my favorite people

[@sabellegrace]

Ohhhh yeah i've been waiting for this

[@goutons]

they really needed a second camera

[@ThunderChunky101]

@TonyLee1000 "condemn themselves by there own tongue." My tongue spells it "their".

[@alanastone5241]

We can spell properly.

[@willmpet]

From Non Sequitur: "The most accurate fortune ever told. You will be told what you want to hear. It will be so generalized that it could fit anyone. You will pay a ridiculous amount of money for it."

[@LeroySh]

That is indeed correct, therefore I shall retract my last statement and say that my flaw could be my memory that failed me in my time of need.

[@BlckSbthMan]

I was looking at a different Internet Explorer window, and when I came back, the video was at 3:15, and I thought Dawkins was choking Derren. Hahahaha.

[@NomadUrpagi]

To me Richard Dawkins is like Robert Langdon from Dan Brown's novels: he takes all the myths, fears, misconseptions and unveils the symbolism behind them.

[@markcromwell1975]

2 great brains right there. The ugly truth is better than an attractive lie.

[@TheJigoChigo]

Look at the way Derren uses his arms and hands while explaining

[@SearchBucket2]

Why would I go there? Do you really think the "King of tricksters" is going to say anything other than "it wasn't a trick?". He or his team are going to great lengths already to patch up things on the web. "Incriminating" links are disappearing fast; forums suddenly have eloquent support suddenly arriving days after the show has gone away? Why would people who are "happy" the show wasn't faked suddenly go looking for the doubters? No ... your post is intended for others who may have read mine.

[@TBBTQuotes]

I think they were referring to the sway and not the quality of image.

[@AmyInIndy321]

Jimbo and Bubba were two blind brothers from a very rural small town. Their father died so they had to fly on an airplane for the very first time. Soon after take-off Jimbo tells Bubba that he doesn’t really believe he’s flying because “it just ain’t possible for no man to fly in the air!”. Bubba tries his best to convince him otherwise but without success. Suddenly the plane loses its engines! As the plane is going down - which brother puts on a parachute before he jumps?

[@rabsputin]

@jmann114 part of it? you mean on it's own the video isn't conclusive? i want you to provide solid fool proof evidence which stands up to scrutiny, do you have this? or are you wasting both of our time?

[@FiveSigma72]

@santosbl01 Bit harsh, I dont think anyone who isnt a DoP noticed. Thanks for that though. Are you the Jeremy Clarkson of DoP?

[@setnoset]

a way to avoid the problem of simply inventing names and waiting until someone in the audience recognizes it, is if the psychic chooses a person beforehand and then says the name. If that is the case and if someone has seen that happen, the evidence is much more convincing.

[@blenki07]

I'm fairly sure it is you that isn't getting it, but why don't you explain what I'm not getting?

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

I worked out Derek Acorah's cold reading in the 1990s by recording his 'Talk Radio' shows with James Whale and analysing them. He did everything Derren talks about here and more. It sickened me that I knew that HE knew he was looking for a 'hit' all the time while the people he was stringing along were hurting and desperate for some comfort.

[@MalcolmCooks]

Barnum Statements: statements along the line of: "When life gives you a collapsed bridge, make bridgemonade!" or "I've been improving my vocabularium with a wonderful book..." Fable 2 anyone?

[@imatroll147]

Where can I start in learning what Derren Brown does? (not in front of an audience!)? I have already read - Derren Brown: Tricks of the Mind, Derren Brown: Mentalism tricks. Please don't put a link to his recommended books, I just want a good "step-by-step" guide to some of his tricks, I also do not want to have to pay for anything so a website or downloadable .pdf would be great, thanks

[@redunderthebed4]

@The7thBeatle Science doesn't say that the universe sprang forth from nothing, it simply states that everything in the universe is moving away from one point, the point of what we assume to have been a super planet that exploded. Because everything in the universe was gathered into this point and was then randomly dispersed amongst the universe we can say that nothing that happened before that event has any relevance to anything that occurred afterwards, i.e. us.

[@VanargrandsEnd]

Off topic but as for the old Chicken or the Egg debate goes - Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.

[@AndyTutify]

two great minds

[@smoothbanana]

@MountcastleFilms That's an interesting theory: everything is part of something larger. Talking about the video, whenever someone says something hurtful to you, though you may be strong enough to outwardly deflect it, the internal "hit" will penetrate even deeper. Talking to a good friend afterwards can help, but what we really need to do is to find the best friend inside ourselves so that we may break a negative thought pattern at its root.

[@JMUDoc]

I read my horoscope today and it said "today you will read a horoscope". Holy shit!

[@LackadaisicalE]

@TonyLee1000 are you saying Derren Brown is not an internationally reknowned master mentalist (the parlor game-magician type mentalist ofcourse)? Then please mention some that are, particularly those I can see on youtube like I can Derren Brown.

[@unknownchannel3141]

Amazing. Why didn't I see this before?

[@Hellsconsort]

I like Darren Brown, he's used his talents for entertainment and this type of thing he could keep to himself. In the know, kind of thing, but he's explaining, exposing it. There doesn't seem a malisciousness about him.

[@LeroySh]

Glad to be of service, just wanted to point out the intellectual brilliance of that most enlightening comment, don't thank me, thank you MrCardShark101

[@Pianoguy32]

@AwakeIsland it's not that, its that its moving all over the place, why not just film with a wider angle lense or slightly further away... anwyay...

[@sdmsdmsdm]

Quite. Thanks, it pained me as well.

[@danburycollins]

This interview could have really done with two cameras, and possibly some seats - the camera movement is a bit distracting in places

[@FutureAbe]

Sorry, I am not english speaking, but are they saying "code" reading or "cold" reading?

[@odinata]

@warriorprince1010 What were you doing during the time when the other kids were learning?

[@LeroySh]

Thank you MrCardShark101 for using 'thus' in your answer, you just do not see that literary splendour nowadays

[@sparaticus039]

@XGralgrathor Are you attempting to disprove evolution? There is not a single item in your post that does so... Specifying limiting factors does not disprove anything. That would be similar to saying that gravity is limited because it is much less effective on a human being outside of our atmosphere (virtually non-existent in the case of small masses at a great distance). So is gravity therefore in question as well?

[@angharadllewellyn2192]

the camera made me motion sick!

[@patrickboudreau3846]

Its true i dont drink enough water….this man is a genius, he doesnt even know me.

[@panterasux22]

i think that has ended now, read an interview with the amazing randi a while back where he said it was too much work to keep going. i think he has proved his point anyway

[@iainofiains]

Anyone can talk to the dead... They just never get a response because, well, they're talking to a dead thing.

[@rabsputin]

@jmann114 "But the same could be said for people who insist they are just hallucinations." the burden of proof lies with the person claiming that it wasn't just a hallucination. "but the people who have experienced clinical death always come back with something to share. And it's not just abstract images/sounds. Some of them have reported and proven that they were consciously aware of what was going on around them." clinical death is not brain death, and nobody comes back from brain death.

[@darkilustrisimus]

I love these two

[@rabsputin]

@legion1a while i wholeheartedly agree with most of your comment... "Buddhism is alright, it is benign, and it is not evil." there's been a lot of violence involving buddhist monks in tibet, so i wouldn't let them off the hook that easily.

[@topbluffa1]

anyone notice how Derrern Sharply nods his head quite a lot when he wants to confirm something he is saying.

[@blenki07]

It would work exactly the same as normal cold reading just without facial expressions. Cold reading is mostly about the conversation.

[@mitchellele]

my two favourite people in one video, lucky me

[@felixsulla5556]

Spiritual is a word that has never been properly defined. Even established dictionaries will tell you this. It can be anything from "feeling close to nature", an emotion anyone looking at a waterfall can experience, to believing in a deity.

[@Dhesyca]

The second half of the video where they're talking about people teaching others to cold read without it seeming like trickery...reminds me of how my my mom and grandma trained me to think that this sort of stuff was legit. They taught me how to do this, and I honestly thought nothing of it. Then I hit my teen years, started really looking at the world as objectively as I could, and started to form my own opinions. Scary how they didn't realize what they were teaching me.

[@Synergistik]

The point is "scientific" facts can not been known with absolute certainty, because it is limited to observation, which can always change based on capabilities etc. Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. But you can disprove a theory easily. (Stephen Hawking, 1988)

[@rabsputin]

@jmann114 you've missed my point. howard storm was not brain dead, he didn't die at all. everything he experienced might as well have been a bad nightmare, there's nothing to say otherwise that isn't purely coincidental. clinical death is not death, it only retains the name because for a VERY long time people thought that if your heart stopped you were dead by definition, which you're not because your brain continues to function until it's deprived of oxygen.

[@Reverend1138]

@Pianoguy32 Indeed. I wish they were sat down for this interview. Preferably Dawkins on Derren's lap.

[@raidwipe]

everyone in poverty, everyone who has ever been tortured, any homeless person in the world, anyone starving, anyone involved with gang violence, anyone killed by a disaster, the list goes on.

[@ProfessorEGadd]

Same way microevolution happens. Copying is not precise, and even the smallest detectable difference is enough to drive change when acted on by a selection pressure. How doesn't it happen? By what mechanism are random copy errors constrained, and to what boundries?

[@sonykroket]

@ReasonForThat Humanity made it up to keep people in line

[@cosmicwatchmaker]

Cold reading and hot reading. Remember hot and cold, the game you played as a child? It was useful then and its useful to use that game to spot it now

[@TheLogic1010]

OK big shot, give it your best. How does micro to macro happen?

[@XGralgrathor]

« Are you attempting to disprove evolution? » No. I was responding to `mossinator`, why claimed that "with evolution, everything is possible", thereby in fact stating that the theory is untestable. Specifying its limitations provides a framework for testability.

[@neilaarondudgeon]

My two favourite personalities talking!!!!!!!!

[@stevolution666]

i'm sure they could have made the cameras wobble a bit more if they put their minds to it

[@AtomicKinetic12]

I'm not the only one that caught his "Fork Off" joke... right...lol

[@Mister.Psychology]

Shop link is dead. Please update it.

[@panterasux22]

not his foundation entirely just the million dollar prize, tried to find the article but can't remember where i read it. i could be wrong tho

[@hamsterminator]

@Cinqmil Derren Brown has said on numerous occasions that he likes Dawkins and is impressed by his work- so I doubt it was intentional :) In addition, Derren doesn't put much credence in NLP...

[@whirlpoolzend]

The message is with the receiver.

[@rabsputin]

@jmann114 also, when i say "in their mind" i mean it in the sense that everything we experience in our living consciousness is experienced in our mind via our senses. so if someone who's heart stops on the operating table can see and hear what's going on around them all that means is that their brain hasn't stopped functioning due to the lack of blood being pumped to it.

[@AmyInIndy321]

FYI - A parable is not a short simple versus. I think you're thinking of a Psalm.

[@AscendingParadigm]

I'm happy to accept that serpents can talk as soon as I observe such. Can you help me with that?

[@sparaticus039]

@Mossinator5000Deluxe I guess I'm somewhat confused by your reply, and this is an obvious product of the over-generalizations that we are both making here, but nonetheless...Do you not believe that there are essentially two places in which you can spend the eternity after life, presumably heaven and hell? I am under the impression that the bottom line of religion is "if you have faith in the deity, do what it tells you and you get to go to the good place. Do bad things, go to bad place." No?

[@MegaGum1]

Whats weird is that he was cold reading me throughout this whole clip

[@00angel4200]

@tahshin1601 Yeah, Derren acknowledges that twitch in his book, Tricks of the Mind. If I remember right he said it developed because of all the hypnosis he has done. It is part of getting the subject into a compliant state.

[@FireBIaze]

Great... How do I change it back.