Harvard style of referencing.
Three sources is sufficient.
References that can be used: Giorgina Samira Paiella 2020, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, memory erasure, and the problem of personal identity, Journal of science fiction and philosophy, vol. 3, pp. 116.
Grau, C 2006, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and the morality of memory, The journal of aesthetics and art criticism, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 119133.
Hui, K & Fisher, CE 2015, The ethics of molecular memory modification, Journal of medical ethics, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 515520.
Kroes, M.C.W. & Liivoja, R. 2019, ‘Eradicating war memories: Neuroscientific reality and ethical concerns’, International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 101, no. 910, pp. 69-95.
Levy Neil 2011, Changing Ones Mind. The ethics of memory erasure in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, S&F scienzaefilosofia.it, no. 5, pp. 2949.
Liao, SM 2017, The ethics of memory modification, in The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory, Routledge, pp. 373382.
Paiella, GS 2020, ‘Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Journal of science fiction and philosophy, vol. 3, pp. e1-E16.
Parens, E. 2010, ‘The ethics of memory blunting: Some initial thoughts’, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
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My stance is that it would be unethical as memories shape who we are as people. Please try to talk about how the film is less about the relationship itself but rather about ones interal struggle that occurs as a result with trying to process and deal with a relationship that has passed. By erasing his memories of clementine. Joel is essence erasing a part of himself. I believe the implications of erasing painful memories is that healthy people may to erase something. Memories exist for a reason. as painful as some of these recollections can be they can function as tools for survival.
What’s the point of forgetting the past if it means you are doomed to repeat it.
