Victim of the Brain

Victim of the Brain
Directed by	Piet Hoenderdos
Produced by	Kees Kasander Denis Wigman
Written by	Daniel Dennett (story) Stanislaw Lem (story) Terrel Miedaner (story)
Music by	Facemusic
Cinematography	Frans Bromet
Edited by	Wim Louwrier
Release dates	1988 (1988)
Country	Netherlands
Language	English

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: How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good from The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem. The film was shown several times on television in the Netherlands in the late eighties.

See also

• Brain in a vat, the topic of the story Where am I?
• Philosophy of artificial intelligence#Can a machine have a soul?, ideas related to The Soul of the Mark III Beast
• Matrix reality, a popular term for concepts in the story How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good
  • Derealization and depersonalization, related psychiatric conditions.

External links

• Victim of the Brain at the Internet Movie Database

Douglas Hofstadter
Books	Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) The Mind's I (1981)1 Metamagical Themas (1985) Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (1995)2 Le Ton beau de Marot (1997) I Am a Strange Loop (2007) Surfaces and Essences (2013)
Concepts and projects	BlooP and FlooP Copycat Hofstadter's butterfly Hofstadter's law Hofstadter points MU puzzle Platonia dilemma Six nines in pi Strange loop Superrationality
Related topics	Egbert B. Gebstadter Robert Hofstadter Indiana University Bloomington Victim of the Brain
1 Edited by Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett 2 By Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group

Daniel Dennett
Concepts	Cartesian theater Greedy reductionism Heterophenomenology Intentional stance Intuition pump Multiple drafts model
Selected works	Brainstorms (1981) The Mind's I (1981) Elbow Room (1984) Consciousness Explained (1991) Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) Freedom Evolves (2003) Sweet Dreams (2005) Breaking the Spell (2006)
Other	The Philosophical Lexicon