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What holiday is it when Joel wakes up at the beginning of the film?
What is Valentine's day?
What does Joel decide to do after he finds out about Clementine's procedure?
He has the procedure, too
a term that philosophers use to describe an object being the very same object
What is numerical identity?
the city where the story mostly takes place
What is New York City?
How does Joel fight the memory erasing procedure?
He tries to hide memories and wake up
one gets a desired experience from electrodes being plugged into brain; one is not aware they're plugged in
What is Nozick's experience machine?
Where Joel and Clementine start a conversation and get to know each other again after their memories were erased
What is a train?
How does Dr. Mierzwiak describe the brain damage resulting from the memory erasing procedure?
It's on a par with a night of heavy drinking
Being the same person over time is a matter of holding the same beliefs, value, memories, intentions, psychological state/connections as you did yesterday
What is the psychological continuity theory of personal identity?