Daniel Dennett. “Where Am I?”

This classic piece of philosophical science fiction by Daniel Dennett, “Where Am I?“, is the reading for my Religion and Science Fiction class for Friday. It is a valuable piece in its own right, but also nicely illustrates how science fiction can be useful to philosophers and other thinkers as thought experiments to help us explore difficult and puzzling issues.

Where Am I? http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf

I also found (via Daniel Dennett’s home page) this 1988 Documentary “Victim of the Brain” which includes a dramatization of Dennett’s story “Where Am I?”:

There are other copies of Daniel Dennett’s “Where Am I?” online here and here.