Lecture: Cognitive Science in films

Question 1

What condition did the dude in memento have?

Answer 1

Transient Global Amnesia:

• Cant form new long term memories
• HM (removed part of his brain including his hippocampus and lost his long term memory, to try to cure his epilepsy)
• You can learn procedural memories but not declarative memories (episodic and semantic)
• Did this in the movie with sammy jankins (tested his procedural memory and thought he was faking it)

Question 2

What are A.I rights?

Answer 2

Ethical agents, ethical patients
Pain and suffering (identity theory and functionalism)
Moral agency (hurricanes arent bad or immoral, its natural)
Under what conditions would AI have moral patience?
Generally think we have no obligation to them

Question 3

What are Asimov’s three laws of robotics?

Answer 3

• A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
• A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
  example: I, robot