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Just yesterday I watched the film “Victim of the Brain”, which includes Daniel Dennett playing himself. The film is an odd mashup of an interview with Douglas H
by cpeterso 2y ago
Just yesterday I watched the film “Victim of the Brain”, which includes Daniel Dennett playing himself. The film is an odd mashup of an interview with Douglas Hofstadter, ideas from Dennett and Hofstadter‘s “The Mind's I”, Stanislaw Lem’s “The Cyberiad”, and a tour of MIT’s AI lab in the 1980s.
In the film, Dennett’s brain is transplanted to a vat so it (he?) can control his body remotely using a radio transmitter (to retrieve a subterranean ICBM).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain
A (very low quality) copy of the film is available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w https://youtu.be/_zM7VEhQh4w