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by amelius 1116 days ago
Really after seeing the trick I could only conclude the coin could be in either hand.
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True, but I don't think we can conclude that opposable thumbs correlate with a reduced capacity for deductive logic.
That is what I am talking about. It could be either in the initial coin hand, because the performer just let it drop, or the performer could take it. There is no way of knowing. You have to guess based on the situation, and the thumb part feels like a stretch.

It feels like more an intuition based thing that might relate to some level of intelligence which might correlate to having thumbs for certain mammals?