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/i Victim of the Brain
 is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos about "the ideas of Douglas R. Hofstadter" and is based off the book
/link http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465030912/ref=nosim/helpfundvirgil-20 The Mind's I: fantasies and reflections on self and soul
 Basic Books, 1985.  It interviews an ever-so-young looking Douglas Hofstadter and younger-but-not-quite-young-looking Daniel Dennett.  Back when I was in highschool I, in vain, searched a copy of this film.  I had given up looking for it, but much to my delight, years later during my undergraduate stay at Indiana University someone stumbled across a copy of the film inside a closest in the
/link http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/ Center for Research in Concepts and Cognition
.  I don't own the copyright to this film, but as I far as I can tell it's an orphaned work and no longer commercially viable.  So, with Doug Hofstadter's blessing, I ripped and uploaded it for the Internet to enjoy.  If you own the copyright to this film and want it removed, contact me and I'll take it down.

/b Watch it
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* /link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8576072297424860224 Watch it live on Google Video.
* Alternatively, you can
/link http://php.virgil.gr/VICTIM_OF_THE_BRAIN-1988.zip download a high quality version here.
[700MB, zipped so it won't try to play in your browser]
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/b More information
* /link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096382/ IMDB entry
* /link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain Wikipedia entry
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