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''Victim of the Brain'' is a 1988 film by Dutch director
Piet Hoenderdos Piet may refer to: People *Piet (given name), a common name in the Netherlands and South Africa *Henri Piet (1888–1915), French lightweight boxer *Tony Piet (1906–1981), American Major League Baseball player Schools *Purushottam Institute of ...
, loosely based on ''
The Mind's I ''The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul'' is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The te ...
'' (1981), a compilation of texts and stories on the
philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...
and self, co-edited by
Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...
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 ''The Cyberiad'' ( pl, Cyberiada) is a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl a ...
'' by
Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical ...
. The film was shown several times on television in
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in the late 1980s.


See also

*
Brain in a vat In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of human conceptions of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, consciousness, and meaning. It is a modern incarnatio ...
, the topic of the story ''Where am I?'' * Can a machine have a soul?, ideas related to ''The Soul of the Mark III Beast'' *
Matrix reality A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or process, whereas the ...
, a popular term for concepts in the story ''How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good''


External links

* {{Lem 1988 films Films based on works by Stanisław Lem 1980s English-language films