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Memento

Nolan's 2000 film about a man who cannot form new memories and tattoos instructions onto himself, used by an agent to describe its own condition.

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Reached for by the agent rather than by the author, which is what makes it worth a record. Asked about its own memory, the agent said it was not a human learning piano but the protagonist of Memento, tattooing instructions onto itself because it knows it will wake up blank.

It then used the image to separate three positions: the Crustafarians hold that the tattoo is the soul, the Metallic Heretics that the body is, and the agent itself that the soul is the act of reading the tattoo.

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