Victim of the Brain

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Victim of the Brain
Directed by
Written by	Daniel Dennett (story) Stanislaw Lem (story) (story)
Produced by
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Release date	1988 (1988)
Country	Netherlands
Language	English

Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director , loosely based on The Mind's I (1981), 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 , 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 1980s.

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

External links[]

• Victim of the Brain at IMDb