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Maybe I am fooled, but I don't think my reasoning is foolish in itself. When someone does something impressive, many people jump and say that it can't be done, and that the artist must be using a trick.
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Keep in mind that the artist is saying: "I'm using a trick".
That's the way Derren conducts himself. Derren calls himself a mentalist, wrote books about how to be a good mentalist and produced videos explaining some mentalist tricks.
Photoreading effects are described in mentalist literature.
The story would be different if you would have a random person claiming to archive something with photoreading.
In that case the default should be either skeptic or open minded (meaning that you neither believe it's true or it's false) till you search for further proof.
Going around and simply believing that claims are true is a bad idea. The search for magic pill is also an endeavor that doesn't lead to success in life.
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If the eye can really register so much information, why couldn't we train ourselves to grasp the essential names and titles from a page, for example, and discard the irrelevant information?
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The eye isn't the limiting factor but the brain. The brain is no computer.
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Anyway, I will learn Photoreading myself, as soon as I decide I can afford it. Then I will be able to check it out for myself.
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How about going to your local library and getting Paul Scheeles book in which he explains Photoreading?