How do you convince a person you’ve never met with memory loss and personality changes you can’t predict, to do things that you want? That sounds hard.
You might have more leverage taking over existing people; then at least you can do it in real time with feedback.
You might try writing things down in a journal as a general mnemonic strategy. You future self will then be able to understand you, though perhaps they won’t care.
If you’ve got a lot of chess books, chess sets, and chess-playing friends and family, then if you lost your memory you still might take up chess since it’s all around you.
How do you convince a person you’ve never met with memory loss and personality changes you can’t predict, to do things that you want? That sounds hard.
You are imagining a worst case scenario. I think in most cases the future-me will still have significant similarity to present-me, which should make things easier.
You might try writing things down in a journal as a general mnemonic strategy.
There is a practical problem here. Assuming future-me forgot about the journal, how do I remind him? A tattoo, maybe? :-)
How do you convince a person you’ve never met with memory loss and personality changes you can’t predict, to do things that you want? That sounds hard.
You might have more leverage taking over existing people; then at least you can do it in real time with feedback.
You might try writing things down in a journal as a general mnemonic strategy. You future self will then be able to understand you, though perhaps they won’t care.
Surround yourself with influences you approve of.
If you’ve got a lot of chess books, chess sets, and chess-playing friends and family, then if you lost your memory you still might take up chess since it’s all around you.
That is basically the same approach by which we continue to live within our children. We surround them with usness.
You are imagining a worst case scenario. I think in most cases the future-me will still have significant similarity to present-me, which should make things easier.
There is a practical problem here. Assuming future-me forgot about the journal, how do I remind him? A tattoo, maybe? :-)
Give that task to a friend that you trust.