“Victim of the Brain”: 1988 film version of Daniel Dennet’s “The Mind’s I”


Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind’s I, a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett’s Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally by StanisÅ‚aw Lem. The film was shown several times on television in the Netherlands in the late eighties. (Wikipedia)

Came across it because science journalist Steven Stroeykens called it his favourite Youtube moment (the embedded version is Google Video, Youtube only allows fragments up to 10 minutes).

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