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Intelligence augmentation - ref bib

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        Memory. Socrates and the Sophists. Starting education early. Progressive and esp. 
        Montessori education. Use of machines à la Calvin or Ashby. Drugs don't seem to work. 
        Developmental or genetic tampering. In science fiction.
      
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            * See: W. Ross Ashby, Introduction to Cybernetics [see the last chapters, on 
        ``amplification of selection'']
      
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            * John Brunner, Shockwave Rider and Stand on Zanzibar
      
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            * Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human 
        Intelligence
      
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            * Barbara Ehrenreich, Kipper's Game
      
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            * Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
      
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            * J. B. S. Haldane, Daedalus
      
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            * Seymour Papert, The Children's Machine [About as good as any book on education 
        funding in part by Nintendo could possibly be.]
      
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            * Plato, especially Meno
      
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            * Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, esp. vol. I 
      
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            * To read: Ashby, ``Design for an Intelligence Amplifier''
      
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            * Seymour Papert, Mindstorms
      
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            * Olaf Stapeldon, Sirius 
      
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