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d, England & NY: Oxford University Press., p 60-75. . Garry, M. & Loftus, E.F. (2007) Repressed memory. in Clark, D.S. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Law and Society. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage Publishers. p. 1307-1309. Loftus, E. F. & Steinberg, R.L. (2007, March 9). If memory serves. Wall Street Journal, p. A14.(

tered. This challenge, which sounds like something out of science fiction, is known by technologists by a name that does sound like a short story by Isaac Asimov: “The Confinement Problem”. The computer scientist Butler Lampson named this in 1973 as a sort of task for computer security experts - possibly their

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nal aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society. Thought experiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated.

6 Artificial intelligence was not what artists first wanted out of cybernetics, once Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society came out in 1950. The range of artists who identified themselves with cybernetics in the fifties and sixties initially had little access to “thinking

nal aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society. Thought experiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated.

6 Artificial intelligence was not what artists first wanted out of cybernetics, once Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society came out in 1950. The range of artists who identified themselves with cybernetics in the fifties and sixties initially had little access to “thinking