Daniel Dennett's brain gets removed!! Part 2

I have selected a section of clips from an old docudrama featuring Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter. I have only uploaded that portion with Dennett in it, for all the Dennett fans on YouTube. I am pretty sure Dennett did not allow neurosurgeons to remove his brain and connect it to his body by radio transmitters. It was just a good thought experiment. But if I ever get to ask him, this is the first thing I would like to clarify.

This set of clips is from the 1988 docudrama 'Victim of the Brain' that was uploaded to google video by VIRGIL.GRiffith, a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech. That is his website:
http://virgil.gr/49

You could watch the whole docudrama at ,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8576072297424860224
It was made by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos

You may also leave user comments at
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096382/

Plus there is an entry at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_of_the_Brain

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Daniel
• Dennett
• Brain
• Philosophy
• Neuroscience
• Comedy

[nightvidcole]

hmmmmm...how did they stop his brain from hallucinating when all the sensory input was offline?

[82abhilash]

@nightvidcole An excellent question. I bet Dennett did not think of it. I know I didn't.

[raco3140]

where did you have find this stuff... is incredible!!!! i ve read the book. but this is extreamly funny!!!!!

[82abhilash]

I gave all the information at the video description in the right side.

[PlatesManUK]

I imagine a brain that is disembodied like this would become extremely powerfully driven to command its body to protect it. This is assuming the brain becomes aware that it is disembodied. I wonder what the implications would be if the brain was NOT aware of being disembodied...

[jedihunter176]

I am a brain in a vat. Umad?

[sonofagunM357]

this is some spooky shit with some spookier implications.