Victim of the Brain
“Victim of the Brain” est un documentaire de 1988, entrecoupé de fictions, réalisé par le néerlandais Piet Hoenderdos.
Ce film (très étrange) illustre le travail de Douglas Hofstadter, l’auteur de “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” et du philosophe Daniel Dennett.
Il comporte une adaptation de la nouvelle “The seventh Sally” de l’auteur de science fiction Stanislaw Lem (La “Septième croisade ou comment la perfection de Trurl fut à la source de bien des maux” de “La cybériade”).
Ce film est visible sur Google Vidéo : “Victim of the Brain. Original acquired from the Center for Research in Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University. Uploaded with permission from Douglas Hofstadter.”
Manu
Oula, va falloir que je regarde ça très rapidement, j’adore “godel escher et bach”, je vous le conseille absolument (c’est peut être pas pour tout le monde mais bon.)
Manu
Etrange, sur la page wikipedia correspondante, il est indiquée que le documentaire est basé sur “the mind’s I” (autre livre d’Hofstadter, sympa aussi).
Sur la page de discution on peut lire :
“I really wanted to know what the deal with this movie was so I emailed Douglas Hofstatder. He said:
I have no idea where people get their ideas or why they post them on the Web when they are extremely confused. Here are the facts. In 1983, Piet Hoenderdos came from Amsterdam to Boston to film a series of in-depth interviews with me (I was on sabbatical at MIT at the time, and at the beginning and end of the film, one can see some footage of me playing the piano on the 7th floor of the AI Lab). The next year Piet filmed Dan Dennett and some other people in an enactment of Dan’s philosophical fantasy “Where Am I?” (published in our jointly edited book “The Mind’s I”),and he also filmed an enactment of a short story called “The Soul of the Mark III Beast” by Terrel Miedaner (also in “The Mind’s I”), and also the short story “The Seventh Sally” by Stanislaw Lem (also in “The Mind’s I”). All these pieces were then interleaved with chunks of the interview with me, and the whole thing was unified with a kind of story-telling glue into a movie entitled “Victim of the Brain”, which was shown on Dutch television a few times in the mid- or late eighties.”
Laurent Gloaguen
Manu, que trouvez-vous “étrange” ?
Manu
Ah oui tiens, au temps pour moi, j’avais cru lire que le film était basé sur “Gödel, Escher, Bach”.
Laurent Gloaguen
Le film n’est pas basé sur le GEB, cela dit, le livre y est cité et montré.
Blah ? Touitter !