https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind - 2004 Joel (Jim Carey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) each elect to have memories of each other erased after they breakup - what is the impact of erasing emotional memories - good and bad; are the emotions really erased or just the content of the association - other chars Mary (Kirsten Dunst) and Howard (Tom Wilkinson) and Joel and Clementine finding each other again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)

Season 1 released 2022 on Apple+, Season 2 2025 Mark (Adam Scott) elects to become a severed employee (medical implant separates work life from home life = Innie vs. Outie) after his wife Gemma dies. Mark wants to figure out what Lumon is up to and why, what happened to former co-worker Petey, and “reintegration” of selves for coworkers Helly, Dylan, and Irving.

Memory - https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/memory

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234153/

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/memory/where-are-memories-stored#:~:text=Memories%20aren't%20stored%20in,heavily%20on%20the%20prefrontal%20cortex.

Split-brain science - https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1231/2951052

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20seems%20that%20in,the%20response%20that%20is%20required.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-severance-whats-real-whats-fake/#:~:text=First%2C%20it's%20not%20just%20episodic,the%20issues%20affecting%20our%20world.

https://aperture.byu.edu/?p=35

Connection between emotions and memory and how they influence each other

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6198111/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5573739/

https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/neuroscience-says-you-can-improve-your-memory-with-emotion-but-theres-1-important-catch.html

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